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title: But you will easily perceive that when a man once knows the rights o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But you will easily perceive that when a man once knows the rights of the journey to Amack, as I know them, it's quite natural that on the New Year's night one should look out to see the wild chase go by. Who acts: you, man, I, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 37

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But you will easily perceive that when a man once knows the rights of the journey to Amack, as I know them, it's quite natural that on the New Year's night one should look out to see the wild chase go by.

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**Who acts:** you, man, I, it, wild chase · **What happens:** perceive, know, be, look out, see, go by · **To what, where:** rights · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, I, it), 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:pg27200:136:37
# text = But you will easily perceive that when a man once knows the rights of the journey to Amack, as I know them, it's quite natural that on the New Year's night one should look out to see the wild chase go by.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	9	nmod	_	_
11	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Amack	Amack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
37	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	csubj	_	_
39	out	out	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | future | you |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | present | a man | the rights of the journey to Amack |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | present | I | rights *= right* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | natural *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look out** | should |  |  |  |  |  | on the New Year's night one; out *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **go by** | infinitive | the wild chase |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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