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title: “I saw everything, and I shall tell all to you: but--it is no pride… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I saw everything, and I shall tell all to you: but--it is no pride on my part--as a free man, and with the knowledge I have, not to speak of my position in life, my excellent circumstances--I certainly wish that you would say YOU* to me!” Who acts: learned man, debt, you. A sentence of «Andersen's 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 115

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“I saw everything, and I shall tell all to you: but--it is no pride on my part--as a free man, and with the knowledge I have, not to speak of my position in life, my excellent circumstances--I certainly wish that you would say YOU\* to me!”

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**Who acts:** learned man, debt, you · **What happens:** see, tell, be, have, not speak, wish · **To what, where:** everything, all, you, pride, part, learned man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (learned man, debt, 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:pg1597:23:115
# text = “I saw everything, and I shall tell all to you: but--it is no pride on my part--as a free man, and with the knowledge I have, not to speak of my position in life, my excellent circumstances--I certainly wish that you would say YOU* to me!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	ccomp	_	_
56	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	55	punct	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the learned man *= man* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | shall | the learned man *= man* | all | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Topic to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | debt | no pride and a free man |  | my part |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the learned man *= man* |  |  |  |  | with the knowledge | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the learned man *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of my position in life and my excellent circumstances | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | the learned man *= man* |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | you | YOU | the learned man *= man* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to i=Recipient |

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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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