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title: “I should like some day, just for a trial, to take such nature upon… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I should like some day, just for a trial, to take such nature upon me, and be a poet myself; I am very sure I should make no such miserable verses as the others. Who acts: strange race. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 29

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“I should like some day, just for a trial, to take such nature upon me, and be a poet myself; I am very sure I should make no such miserable verses as the others.

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**Who acts:** strange race · **What happens:** like, take, be, make · **To what, where:** such nature, poet, such miserable verses · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange race), 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:pg1597:8:29
# text = “I should like some day, just for a trial, to take such nature upon me, and be a poet myself; I am very sure I should make no such miserable verses as the others.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
24	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *in a quote* | should | a strange race and that poets *= race* |  |  |  | day | for a trial | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for trial=Attribute |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a strange race and that poets *= race* *not said here* | such nature |  |  |  | upon a strange race and that poets *= race* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a poet |  |  |  | myself *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a strange race and that poets *= race* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | should | a strange race and that poets *= race* | no such miserable verses |  |  |  | as the others | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Product |

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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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