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title: I would not be a man if it were not now once accepted and regarded a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I would not be a man if it were not now once accepted and regarded as something to be so! Who acts: I, man. 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 148

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I would not be a man if it were not now once accepted and regarded as something to be so!

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** not be, not accept, regard, be · **To what, where:** man, world

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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, man), 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:pg1597:23:148
# text = I would not be a man if it were not now once accepted and regarded as something to be so!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | would | I | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **accept** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | a man *not said here* | world |  |  | now | once *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **regard** | participle | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as something | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as something=Value |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |

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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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