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title: Immediately 'the inner man' of each individual would be displayed be… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately 'the inner man' of each individual would be displayed before him, like a game of cards, in which he unerringly might read what the future of every person presented was to be. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its d
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 49

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Immediately 'the inner man' of each individual would be displayed before him, like a game of cards, in which he unerringly might read what the future of every person presented was to be.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** display, read, future, present, be · **To what, where:** inner man, person

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg1597:7:49
# text = Immediately 'the inner man' of each individual would be displayed before him, like a game of cards, in which he unerringly might read what the future of every person presented was to be.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	displayed	display	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	unerringly	unerringly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	nsubj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **display** | would · passive |  | the inner man of each individual |  |  | before boy | like a game of cards | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | might | man |  |  |  |  | unerringly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **future** |  |  |  |  |  |  | of every person | tree rules |
| 4 | **present** | participle |  | every person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | be *property* | tree rules |

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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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