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title: I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear, I feel as light and cheerful as though I were in heaven; but I know for a certainty, that if to-morrow a dim remembrance of it should swim before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense, as I have often experienced al
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 80

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I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear, I feel as light and cheerful as though I were in heaven; but I know for a certainty, that if to-morrow a dim remembrance of it should swim before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense, as I have often experienced already--especially before I enlisted under the banner of the police, for that dispels like a whirlwind all the visions of an unfettered imagination.

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**Who acts:** I, perception, dim remembrance, it, my · **What happens:** seem, be, feel, know, swim, experience · **To what, where:** heaven, morrow, nothing, banner, visions, things

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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 (I, perception, dim remembrance, it), 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:pg1597:8:80
# text = I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear, I feel as light and cheerful as though I were in heaven; but I know for a certainty, that if to-morrow a dim remembrance of it should swim before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense, as I have often experienced already--especially before I enlisted under the banner of the police, for that dispels like a whirlwind all the visions of an unfettered imagination.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	unusually	unusually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	perception	perception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	_
45	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
47	before	before	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	_
54	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	_
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	54	obj	_	_
56	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
60	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
61	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
62	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
63	often	often	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	54	conj	_	_
65	already	already	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
68	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
69	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
70	enlisted	enlist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	advcl	_	_
71	under	under	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	banner	banner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	73	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
78	for	for	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
79	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	80	obl	_	_
80	dispels	dispel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	70	conj	_	_
81	like	like	ADP	IN	_	83	case	_	_
82	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
83	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	obl	_	_
84	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	86	det:predet	_	_
85	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	86	det	_	_
86	visions	vision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	80	obj	_	_
87	of	of	ADP	IN	_	90	case	_	_
88	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	90	det	_	_
89	unfettered	unfetter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	90	amod	_	_
90	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | I |  |  |  |  | in good spirits | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in spirit=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | my perception of things |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as light | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as light=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | I |  |  | heaven |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for a certainty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **swim** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | a dim remembrance of morrow |  |  | morrow | before my mind |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Destination |
| 7 | **seem** | future | it | nothing |  |  | then |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute |
| 8 | **experience** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **enlist** | past | I |  |  | the banner of the police |  | especially *property* | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **dispel** | present | I *not said here* | all visions of a unfettered imagination |  |  |  | for that; like a whirlwind | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vision=Patient |
| 11 | **unfetter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **perceive** |  | my | things |  |  |  |  | nom perception «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 13 | **remember** |  |  | morrow |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 14 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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