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title: “Let no one deem himself happy before his end,” were the words of So… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Let no one deem himself happy before his end,” were the words of Solon; and here was a new and brilliant proof of the wisdom of the old apothegm. Who acts: you, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 114

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“Let no one deem himself happy before his end,” were the words of Solon; and here was a new and brilliant proof of the wisdom of the old apothegm.

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**Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** let, deem, be · **To what, where:** one, voice, words, new proof · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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:pg1597:9:114
# text = “Let no one deem himself happy before his end,” were the words of Solon; and here was a new and brilliant proof of the wisdom of the old apothegm.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	deem	deem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Solon	Solon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	apothegm	apothegm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | no one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deem** *in a quote* | infinitive | no one *not said here* | voice |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the words |  |  |  | of Solon | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a new proof |  | here |  | of the wisdom of the old apothegm | 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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