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title: When we die--so at least says the student, for whom my wife does the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When we die--so at least says the student, for whom my wife does the washing--we shall fly about as light as a feather from one such a star to the other. Who acts: we, wife. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 88

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When we die--so at least says the student, for whom my wife does the washing--we shall fly about as light as a feather from one such a star to the other.

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**Who acts:** we, wife · **What happens:** die, say, do, fly · **To what, where:** student, washing, one star · **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 (we, wife), 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:pg1597:6:88
# text = When we die--so at least says the student, for whom my wife does the washing--we shall fly about as light as a feather from one such a star to the other.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	ccomp	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
31	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | the student |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent student=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present | my wife | the washing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | shall | we |  |  | such one star |  | to the other; light *property* | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from star=Initial\_Location to other=Destination |

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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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