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title: Behold--there are certain things in the world to which one ought nev… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold--there are certain things in the world to which one ought never to give utterance except with the greatest caution; but doubly careful must one be when we have the Shoes of Fortune on our feet. Who acts: one, we. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 91

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Behold--there are certain things in the world to which one ought never to give utterance except with the greatest caution; but doubly careful must one be when we have the Shoes of Fortune on our feet.

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**Who acts:** one, we · **What happens:** not give, be, have · **To what, where:** utterance, world, Shoes

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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 (one, we), 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:pg1597:6:91
# text = Behold--there are certain things in the world to which one ought never to give utterance except with the greatest caution; but doubly careful must one be when we have the Shoes of Fortune on our feet.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	except	except	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	caution	caution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	doubly	doubly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | ought | one | utterance | the world |  |  | except the greatest caution | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to which=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | must · present |  |  |  |  |  | careful, doubly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | we | the Shoes of Fortune on our feet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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