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title: I have gone through a great deal in my time, when I come to recollec… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I have gone through a great deal in my time, when I come to recollect: I have been in the fire and in the water, I have been deep in the earth, and have mounted higher in the air than most other people, and now I am swinging here, outside a bird-cage, in the air and the sunshine. Who acts: I. A sent
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 11

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I have gone through a great deal in my time, when I come to recollect: I have been in the fire and in the water, I have been deep in the earth, and have mounted higher in the air than most other people, and now I am swinging here, outside a bird-cage, in the air and the sunshine.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, come, recollect, be, mount, swing · **To what, where:** great deal, fire, earth, air, bird cage

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. 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:pg27200:13:11
# text = I have gone through a great deal in my time, when I come to recollect: I have been in the fire and in the water, I have been deep in the earth, and have mounted higher in the air than most other people, and now I am swinging here, outside a bird-cage, in the air and the sunshine.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	recollect	recollect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
40	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	xcomp	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	than	than	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	47	amod	_	_
46	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
54	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
58	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	appos	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · perfect | I |  |  | a great deal in my time |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through deal=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recollect** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the fire and the water |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the earth |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mount** | present · perfect | I *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | than most other people; high *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in air=Destination |
| 7 | **swing** | present · progressive | I |  |  | a bird cage; here | now |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme outside cage=Trajectory |

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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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