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title: From me have gone forth to the world those wonderful descriptions of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: From me have gone forth to the world those wonderful descriptions of troops of charming maidens, and of brave knights on prancing steeds; of the halt and the blind, and I know not what more, for I assure you I never think of these things." Who acts: me, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christia
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 11

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From me have gone forth to the world those wonderful descriptions of troops of charming maidens, and of brave knights on prancing steeds; of the halt and the blind, and I know not what more, for I assure you I never think of these things."

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**Who acts:** me, I · **What happens:** go, not know, assure, not think, describe · **To what, where:** wonderful descriptions, world, you, troops

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, 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:pg27200:142:11
# text = From me have gone forth to the world those wonderful descriptions of troops of charming maidens, and of brave knights on prancing steeds; of the halt and the blind, and I know not what more, for I assure you I never think of these things."
1	From	from	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	prancing	prancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	halt	halt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	conj	_	_
38	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	assure	assure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
49	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · perfect | me | that wonderful descriptions of troops of charming maidens and brave knights on prancing steeds |  | the world |  | of the halt; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to world=Initial\_Location of halt=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **assure** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  | of this things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **describe** |  |  | troops of charming maidens |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=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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