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title: Now the learned man didn't think much about that; he was a very kind… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the learned man didn't think much about that; he was a very kind-hearted man, and particularly mild and friendly, and so he said one day to the shadow: “As we have now become companions, and in this way have grown up together from childhood, shall we not drink 'thou' together, it is more familia
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 188

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Now the learned man didn't think much about that; he was a very kind-hearted man, and particularly mild and friendly, and so he said one day to the shadow: “As we have now become companions, and in this way have grown up together from childhood, shall we not drink 'thou' together, it is more familiar?”

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**Who acts:** learned man, man, we, sun · **What happens:** learn, not think, be, say, become, grow up · **To what, where:** hearted man, companions, way, thou · **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, man, we, sun), 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:pg1597:23:188
# text = Now the learned man didn't think much about that; he was a very kind-hearted man, and particularly mild and friendly, and so he said one day to the shadow: “As we have now become companions, and in this way have grown up together from childhood, shall we not drink 'thou' together, it is more familiar?”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	59	punct	_	_
37	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	59	advcl	_	_
43	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
48	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
49	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	_
51	up	up	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	together	together	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
56	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
57	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
60	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	61	punct	_	_
63	together	together	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
65	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
66	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
67	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	68	advmod	_	_
68	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the learned man |  |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | man | a hearted man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **become** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | companions |  |  | now |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we *not said here* |  |  | this way |  | from childhood; together *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 7 | **not** **drink** *in a quote* | shall | we | thou |  |  |  | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sun |  |  |  |  | familiar *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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