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title: Yet perhaps I may be able once more to see the round red sun before… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet perhaps I may be able once more to see the round red sun before he entirely disappears. Who acts: I, tone. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 60

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Yet perhaps I may be able once more to see the round red sun before he entirely disappears.

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**Who acts:** I, tone · **What happens:** be, see, disappear · **To what, where:** round red sun

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tone), 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:pg1597:18:60
# text = Yet perhaps I may be able once more to see the round red sun before he entirely disappears.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	disappears	disappear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | I |  |  |  |  | able, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the round red sun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |
| 3 | **disappear** | present | tone |  |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:** «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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