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title: I saw the most unimaginable things with the women, with the men, wit… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I saw the most unimaginable things with the women, with the men, with parents, and with the sweet, matchless children; I saw,” said the shadow, “what no human being must know, but what they would all so willingly know--what is bad in their neighbor. Who acts: I, shadow, parents. A sentence of «Ander
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 149

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I saw the most unimaginable things with the women, with the men, with parents, and with the sweet, matchless children; I saw,” said the shadow, “what no human being must know, but what they would all so willingly know--what is bad in their neighbor.

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**Who acts:** I, shadow, parents · **What happens:** see, say, be, know · **To what, where:** unimaginable things, neighbor · **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 (I, shadow, parents), 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:pg1597:23:149
# text = I saw the most unimaginable things with the women, with the men, with parents, and with the sweet, matchless children; I saw,” said the shadow, “what no human being must know, but what they would all so willingly know--what is bad in their neighbor.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	unimaginable	unimaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	matchless	matchless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	parataxis	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
37	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
38	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	cop	_	_
39	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
43	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	49	obj	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
46	all	all	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	53	nsubj	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | the unimaginable things |  |  |  | with the women; with the sweet matchless children | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the shadow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | must · gerund |  |  |  |  |  | know *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | would | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  | parents's neighbor |  | bad *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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