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title: Ah! there's a faded leaf; I can see that quite plainly." — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! there's a faded leaf; I can see that quite plainly." Who acts: faded leaf, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 213

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Ah! there's a faded leaf; I can see that quite plainly."

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**Who acts:** faded leaf, I · **What happens:** be, fade, see · **To what, where:** that

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faded leaf, 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:pg27200:124:213
# text = Ah! there's a faded leaf; I can see that quite plainly."
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a faded leaf |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | can | I | that |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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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