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description: Certainly, you are in love,' she continued; and added with a comic pathos, 'and I am the person you are in love with.' Who acts: you, nature, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 17

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Certainly, you are in love,' she continued; and added with a comic pathos, 'and I am the person you are in love with.'

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**Who acts:** you, nature, I · **What happens:** be, continue, add · **To what, where:** love, person

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nature, I), 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:pg27200:106:17
# text = Certainly, you are in love,' she continued; and added with a comic pathos, 'and I am the person you are in love with.'
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pathos	pathos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  | love |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | nature |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | nature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a comic pathos | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with pathos=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | the person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  | love |  |  | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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