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title: I wonder if I shall take root here, and winter and summer stand cove… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I wonder if I shall take root here, and winter and summer stand covered with ornaments!” Who acts: I. 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 86

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I wonder if I shall take root here, and winter and summer stand covered with ornaments!”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** wonder, take, cover · **To what, where:** root, winter

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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 (I), 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:pg1597:10:86
# text = I wonder if I shall take root here, and winter and summer stand covered with ornaments!”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | I | root |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | present · passive |  | winter and summer |  |  |  | with ornaments | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ornament=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:** «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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