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title: Now these thoughts were great and daring, as our thoughts generally… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now these thoughts were great and daring, as our thoughts generally are at home, before we have gone out into the world, and encountered its storms and tempests, its thorns and its thistles. Who acts: thoughts, we, our, world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 74

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Now these thoughts were great and daring, as our thoughts generally are at home, before we have gone out into the world, and encountered its storms and tempests, its thorns and its thistles.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, we, our, world · **What happens:** be, dare, go out, encounter, think, storm · **To what, where:** world, storms

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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 (thoughts, we, our, world), 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:pg27200:143:74
# text = Now these thoughts were great and daring, as our thoughts generally are at home, before we have gone out into the world, and encountered its storms and tempests, its thorns and its thistles.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	daring	dare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	tempests	tempest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	thistles	thistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this thoughts |  |  |  | now | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dare** | gerund | this thoughts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | our thoughts |  |  |  |  | as home | tree rules |
| 4 | **go out** | present · perfect | we |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **encounter** | past | this thoughts *not said here* | world's storms and tempests and world's thorns and world's thistles |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus |
| 6 | **think** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **storm** |  | world |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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