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title: He perceived immediately a quantity of beings who were certainly wha… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He perceived immediately a quantity of beings who were certainly what we call “men”; yet they looked different to us. Who acts: earth, beings, we, quantity. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 103

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He perceived immediately a quantity of beings who were certainly what we call “men”; yet they looked different to us.

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**Who acts:** earth, beings, we, quantity · **What happens:** perceive, be, call, look · **To what, where:** quantity, men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, beings, we, quantity), 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:pg1597:6:103
# text = He perceived immediately a quantity of beings who were certainly what we call “men”; yet they looked different to us.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	parataxis	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | earth | a quantity and beings |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer quantity=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | beings | a quantity and beings |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | present | we |  | men |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 4 | **look** | past | quantity |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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