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title: I was soon very tired of it, although I had my children with me; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I was soon very tired of it, although I had my children with me; and, besides, it's very expensive work travelling, very expensive. Who acts: I, pleasure, expensive work. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 105

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I was soon very tired of it, although I had my children with me; and, besides, it's very expensive work travelling, very expensive.

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**Who acts:** I, pleasure, expensive work · **What happens:** be, have, travel · **To what, where:** children, expensive work

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (I, pleasure, expensive work), 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:pg27200:7:105
# text = I was soon very tired of it, although I had my children with me; and, besides, it's very expensive work travelling, very expensive.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
26	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | of pleasure; soon, tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | I | my children |  |  |  | with me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | pleasure | expensive work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **travel** | gerund | expensive work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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