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title: How well can she recall persons to our mind, of whom we have not tho… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: How well can she recall persons to our mind, of whom we have not thought for years; when suddenly they step forth “every inch a man,” resembling the real personages, even to the finest features, and become the heroes or heroines of our world of dreams. Who acts: many, we, persons, inch. A sentence o
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 111

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How well can she recall persons to our mind, of whom we have not thought for years; when suddenly they step forth “every inch a man,” resembling the real personages, even to the finest features, and become the heroes or heroines of our world of dreams.

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**Who acts:** many, we, persons, inch, man, our · **What happens:** recall, not think, step, man, resemble, become · **To what, where:** persons, mind, real personages, heroes · **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 (many, we, persons, inch), 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:pg1597:6:111
# text = How well can she recall persons to our mind, of whom we have not thought for years; when suddenly they step forth “every inch a man,” resembling the real personages, even to the finest features, and become the heroes or heroines of our world of dreams.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	recall	recall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	step	step	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	xcomp	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	heroines	heroine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recall** | can | many | persons |  | our mind |  | well *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Theme to mind=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | we |  |  |  | year |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **step** | present | persons *= person* |  |  |  |  | forth, suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **man** *in a quote* |  | every inch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **resemble** | gerund | a man *not said here* | the real personages |  |  |  | to the finest features | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | infinitive | persons *= person* *not said here* | the heroes of our world of dreams or heroines |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **mind** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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