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title: I know everybody;" and his thoughts wandered all through society, fo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I know everybody;" and his thoughts wandered all through society, for he knew everybody there. " Who acts: I, thoughts, General. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 61

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I know everybody;" and his thoughts wandered all through society, for he knew everybody there. "

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**Who acts:** I, thoughts, General · **What happens:** know, wander, think · **To what, where:** everybody, society · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thoughts, General), 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:pg27200:148:61
# text = I know everybody;" and his thoughts wandered all through society, for he knew everybody there. "
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **know** | present | I | everybody |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everybody=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wander** *in a quote* | past | General's thoughts |  |  | society |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through society=Trajectory |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | past | General | everybody |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everybody=Stimulus |
| 4 | **think** *in a quote* |  | General |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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