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title: You certainly never thought of seeing me so well off. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You certainly never thought of seeing me so well off. Who acts: You. 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 69

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You certainly never thought of seeing me so well off.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not think, see · **To what, where:** me

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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 (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:pg1597:23:69
# text = You certainly never thought of seeing me so well off.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	off	off	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | participle | You |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | You *not said here* | me |  |  |  | off *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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