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title: Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; ot… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; others shiver in every limb if one rub a pane of glass with a nail: I have just such a feeling on hearing you say thou to me; I feel myself as if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you. Who acts: persons, nature, others, 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 192

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Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; others shiver in every limb if one rub a pane of glass with a nail: I have just such a feeling on hearing you say thou to me; I feel myself as if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you.

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**Who acts:** persons, nature, others, I, feeling · **What happens:** not bear, touch, become, shiver, have, say · **To what, where:** grey paper, one rub, limb, thou, me, myself · **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 (persons, nature, others, I), 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:pg1597:23:192
# text = Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; others shiver in every limb if one rub a pane of glass with a nail: I have just such a feeling on hearing you say thou to me; I feel myself as if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shiver	shiver	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pane	pane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
34	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	37	det:predet	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
42	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
48	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	47	obj	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
51	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	advcl	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
57	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	58	amod	_	_
58	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bear** | can | some persons |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **touch** | to-infinitive | some persons *not said here* | grey paper |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme paper=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **become** | present | nature |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shiver** | present | others | one rub |  | every limb |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | such feeling on hearing | thou | me |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 7 | **feel** | present | I | myself |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 8 | **press** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | my first situation with you |  | to the earth | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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