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title: No, I can only sit up here and feel angry with that girl, the little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No, I can only sit up here and feel angry with that girl, the little wretch; and I am angry with you, too; you should have left her lying in the water lily, then no one would have known anything about her." Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 51

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No, I can only sit up here and feel angry with that girl, the little wretch; and I am angry with you, too; you should have left her lying in the water lily, then no one would have known anything about her."

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** sit up, feel, be, leave, lie, know · **To what, where:** girl, water lily, one

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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:pg27200:85:51
# text = No, I can only sit up here and feel angry with that girl, the little wretch; and I am angry with you, too; you should have left her lying in the water lily, then no one would have known anything about her."
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
42	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux	_	_
45	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
46	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	45	obj	_	_
47	about	about	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | can | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with you; angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | should · perfect | you | girl |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the water lily |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lily=Location |
| 6 | **know** | would · perfect · passive |  | no one |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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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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