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title: If in the New Year I miss certain persons who used to be there, I am… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If in the New Year I miss certain persons who used to be there, I am sure to notice others who are new arrivals; but this year I omitted taking my look at the guests, I bowled away on the boulders, rolled back through millions of years, and saw the stones break loose high up in the north, saw them d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 38

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If in the New Year I miss certain persons who used to be there, I am sure to notice others who are new arrivals; but this year I omitted taking my look at the guests, I bowled away on the boulders, rolled back through millions of years, and saw the stones break loose high up in the north, saw them drifting about on icebergs, long before Noah's ark was constructed, saw them sink down to the bottom of the sea, and re-appear with a sand-bank, with that one that peered forth from the flood and said, 'This shall be Zealand!'

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**Who acts:** I, certain persons, others, stones, one, This · **What happens:** miss, use, be, notice, omit, take · **To what, where:** certain persons, others, new arrivals, look, boulders, millions · **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 (I, certain persons, others, stones), 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:pg27200:136:38
# text = If in the New Year I miss certain persons who used to be there, I am sure to notice others who are new arrivals; but this year I omitted taking my look at the guests, I bowled away on the boulders, rolled back through millions of years, and saw the stones break loose high up in the north, saw them drifting about on icebergs, long before Noah's ark was constructed, saw them sink down to the bottom of the sea, and re-appear with a sand-bank, with that one that peered forth from the flood and said, 'This shall be Zealand!'
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
8	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	arrivals	arrival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	omitted	omit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
32	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	bowled	bowl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
47	back	back	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	through	through	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	ccomp	_	_
58	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
59	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	60	advmod	_	_
60	up	up	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
65	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	conj	_	_
66	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	_
67	drifting	drift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	65	xcomp	_	_
68	about	about	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
69	on	on	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
72	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	78	advmod	_	_
73	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	78	mark	_	_
74	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	's	's	PART	POS	_	74	case	_	_
76	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nsubj:pass	_	_
77	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	78	aux:pass	_	_
78	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	67	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
80	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	parataxis	_	_
81	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	80	obj	_	_
82	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	80	xcomp	_	_
83	down	down	ADV	RB	_	82	advmod	_	_
84	to	to	ADP	IN	_	86	case	_	_
85	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	86	det	_	_
86	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	obl	_	_
87	of	of	ADP	IN	_	89	case	_	_
88	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	89	det	_	_
89	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	92	punct	_	_
91	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	92	cc	_	_
92	re-appear	re-appear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	conj	_	_
93	with	with	ADP	IN	_	97	case	_	_
94	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	97	det	_	_
95	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	97	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	95	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
97	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	92	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
98	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	101	punct	_	_
99	with	with	ADP	IN	_	101	case	_	_
100	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	101	det	_	_
101	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	conj	_	_
102	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	103	nsubj	_	_
103	peered	peer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	101	acl:relcl	_	_
104	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	103	advmod	_	_
105	from	from	ADP	IN	_	107	case	_	_
106	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	107	det	_	_
107	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	103	obl	_	_
108	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	109	cc	_	_
109	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	103	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
110	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	115	punct	_	_
111	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	115	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
112	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	115	nsubj	_	_
113	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	115	aux	_	_
114	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	115	cop	_	_
115	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	109	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
116	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
117	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | certain persons |  |  | in the New Year |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 2 | **use** | past | certain persons |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | certain persons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **notice** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | others |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | present | others | new arrivals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **omit** | past | I |  |  |  | year |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take** | gerund | I *not said here* | my look |  |  |  | at the guests | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at guest=Asset |
| 9 | **bowl away** | past | I |  |  | the boulders |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on boulder=Trajectory |
| 10 | **roll back** | participle |  | the boulders *not said here* |  | millions of years |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through million=Trajectory |
| 11 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 12 | **break** | present | the stones |  |  | the north |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location |
| 13 | **see** | past |  | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 14 | **drift** | gerund | stones *= stone* *not said here* |  |  | icebergs |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on iceberg=Trajectory |
| 15 | **construct** | past · passive |  | Noah's ark |  |  |  | long *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 16 | **see** | past |  | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 17 | **sink down** | infinitive | stones *= stone* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the bottom of the sea; down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 18 | **peer** | past | that one |  |  |  |  | from the flood; forth *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from flood=Theme |
| 19 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | that one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 20 | **is a** | shall | This | Zealand |  |  |  |  | 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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