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title: If I want to see human beings, I must go into my kitchen, and sit do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If I want to see human beings, I must go into my kitchen, and sit down on the sink, for there only I have opposite neighbors. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 22

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If I want to see human beings, I must go into my kitchen, and sit down on the sink, for there only I have opposite neighbors.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** want, see, go, sit down, have · **To what, where:** human beings, kitchen, sink, opposite neighbors

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. 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:pg27200:139:22
# text = If I want to see human beings, I must go into my kitchen, and sit down on the sink, for there only I have opposite neighbors.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
28	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | human beings |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer being=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | must | I |  |  | my kitchen |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sit down** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the sink |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sink=Location |
| 5 | **have** | present | I | opposite neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=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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