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title: Every day here there was sunshine, plenty to eat, and nothing to thi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day here there was sunshine, plenty to eat, and nothing to think of but pleasure. Who acts: sunshine. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 62

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Every day here there was sunshine, plenty to eat, and nothing to think of but pleasure.

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**Who acts:** sunshine · **What happens:** be, eat, think · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunshine), 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:pg27200:84:62
# text = Every day here there was sunshine, plenty to eat, and nothing to think of but pleasure.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | sunshine and plenty |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | sunshine and plenty *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | sunshine and plenty *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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