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title: If I from him must part, I'm sure 'twill break my heart!' ' — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If I from him must part, I'm sure 'twill break my heart!' ' Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 68

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If I from him must part, I'm sure 'twill break my heart!' '

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** part, be, break · **To what, where:** heart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:127:68
# text = If I from him must part, I'm sure 'twill break my heart!' '
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	twill	twill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **part** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my heart |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient |

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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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