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title: As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of steam; we have experienced it either on railroads, or in boats when crossing the sea; but such a flight is like the travelling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with which light moves. Who acts: we, flight, light. A senten
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 93

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As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of steam; we have experienced it either on railroads, or in boats when crossing the sea; but such a flight is like the travelling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with which light moves.

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**Who acts:** we, flight, light · **What happens:** know, produce, experience, cross, be, move · **To what, where:** speed, railroads, sea, steam

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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, flight, light), 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:pg1597:6:93
# text = As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of steam; we have experienced it either on railroads, or in boats when crossing the sea; but such a flight is like the travelling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with which light moves.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	railroads	railroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
29	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	36	det:predet	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	velocity	velocity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obl	_	_
51	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | we | the speed |  |  |  | as ourselves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speed=Stimulus as ourselves=Attribute |
| 2 | **produce** | participle |  | the speed *not said here* |  |  |  | by the employment of steam | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **experience** | present · perfect | we | speed |  | railroads |  | in boats; either *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cross** | gerund | we *not said here* | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | such flight |  |  |  |  | like the travelling; of a sloth in comparison with the velocity | tree rules |
| 6 | **move** | present | light |  |  |  |  | with the velocity | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **employ** |  |  | steam |  |  |  |  | nom employment «state 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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