--- title: "There is no real pleasure in travelling," said mamma; "to tell the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "There is no real pleasure in travelling," said mamma; "to tell the truth, it's very wearisome; I beg pardon for saying so. Who acts: real pleasure, mamma, pleasure. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real pleasure, mamma, pleasure), 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:pg27200:7:104 # text = "There is no real pleasure in travelling," said mamma; "to tell the truth, it's very wearisome; I beg pardon for saying so. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 travelling travelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 mamma mamma NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 wearisome wearisome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 27 pardon pardon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no real pleasure in travelling | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mamma | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mamma *not said here* | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | pleasure | | | | | wearisome *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | mamma | pardon | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | mamma *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/105/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)