--- title: I work hard and suffer pain with my poor hands," said she, "but I do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: I work hard and suffer pain with my poor hands," said she, "but I do it willingly, that I may be able to bring you up honestly and truthfully, my dear boy." Who acts: I, child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [She Was Good For Nothing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/) / 37 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 37 I work hard and suffer pain with my poor hands," said she, "but I do it willingly, that I may be able to bring you up honestly and truthfully, my dear boy." **Who acts:** I, child · **What happens:** work, suffer, say, do, be, bring up · **To what, where:** pain, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:46:37 # text = I work hard and suffer pain with my poor hands," said she, "but I do it willingly, that I may be able to bring you up honestly and truthfully, my dear boy." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 willingly willingly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 truthfully truthfully ADV RB _ 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | I | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **suffer** | present | I *not said here* | pain | | | | with my poor hands | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | child | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | present | I | pain | | | | willingly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | may | I | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **bring up** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | honestly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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