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title: It was not, however, easy for Rudy to convince Saperli of the imposs… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not, however, easy for Rudy to convince Saperli of the impossibility of doing what he wished. Who acts: Rudy, impossibility. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 60

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It was not, however, easy for Rudy to convince Saperli of the impossibility of doing what he wished.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, impossibility · **What happens:** not be, convince, do, wish · **To what, where:** Saperli, impossibility

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, impossibility), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:54:60
# text = It was not, however, easy for Rudy to convince Saperli of the impossibility of doing what he wished.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	convince	convince	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
12	Saperli	Saperli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | easy, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **convince** | to-infinitive | Rudy |  | Saperli |  |  | of the impossibility | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus saperli=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | the impossibility *not said here* | the impossibility |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wish** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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