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title: He well knew that he should never see his dear old comrades, the lit… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He well knew that he should never see his dear old comrades, the little bushes and flowers around him, anymore; perhaps not even the birds! Who acts: Tree. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 64

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He well knew that he should never see his dear old comrades, the little bushes and flowers around him, anymore; perhaps not even the birds!

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**Who acts:** Tree · **What happens:** know, not see · **To what, where:** birds, dear old comrades · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree), 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:pg1597:10:64
# text = He well knew that he should never see his dear old comrades, the little bushes and flowers around him, anymore; perhaps not even the birds!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	anymore	anymore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Tree | the birds |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **see** | should | Tree | Tree's dear old comrades and the little bushes and flowers |  |  |  | around Christmas; anymore *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comrade=Stimulus |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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