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title: "Each mortal thinks of himself alone, Is a truth, alas, too clearly… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Each mortal thinks of himself alone, Is a truth, alas, too clearly known;" Who acts: mortal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 206

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"Each mortal thinks of himself alone, Is a truth, alas, too clearly known;"

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**Who acts:** mortal · **What happens:** think, be, know · **To what, where:** truth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortal), 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:pg27200:143:206
# text = "Each mortal thinks of himself alone, Is a truth, alas, too clearly known;"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | each mortal |  |  |  |  | of stanza; alone *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a truth and alas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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