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title: I should have been completely killed if I had gone over to the maide… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I should have been completely killed if I had gone over to the maiden; but I was circumspect, I took time to think, and that one must always do.” Who acts: I, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 113

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I should have been completely killed if I had gone over to the maiden; but I was circumspect, I took time to think, and that one must always do.”

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**Who acts:** I, one · **What happens:** kill, go over, be, take, think, do · **To what, where:** I, circumspect

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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:pg1597:23:113
# text = I should have been completely killed if I had gone over to the maiden; but I was circumspect, I took time to think, and that one must always do.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	circumspect	circumspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | should · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **go over** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | to the maiden; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | I | circumspect |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | must | that one |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «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:** «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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