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title: O thou, to whom I do my heart devote, Oh read this page of glad days… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: O thou, to whom I do my heart devote, Oh read this page of glad days now remote, A dark, dark tale, which I tonight devote! Who acts: I, thou, dark dark tale. 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 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 63

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O thou, to whom I do my heart devote, Oh read this page of glad days now remote, A dark, dark tale, which I tonight devote!

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**Who acts:** I, thou, dark dark tale · **What happens:** do, devote, read, page · **To what, where:** heart, page, glad days

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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 (I, thou, dark dark tale), 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:pg1597:6:63
# text = O thou, to whom I do my heart devote, Oh read this page of glad days now remote, A dark, dark tale, which I tonight devote!
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	devote	devote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	devote	devote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | I | my heart |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 2 | **devote** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent to whom=Goal |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | this page of glad days |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic |
| 4 | **devote** | infinitive | a dark dark tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **page** |  |  | glad days |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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