--- title: There must have been magic in it, or I should most certainly become… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There must have been magic in it, or I should most certainly become tipsy; but that did not happen, for my mind seemed quite clear; and, indeed, a kind of sunshine filled the room, and beamed from the eyes of the Polytechnic lecturer. Who acts: I, that, mind, kind. 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C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, mind, kind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:152:35 # text = There must have been magic in it, or I should most certainly become tipsy; but that did not happen, for my mind seemed quite clear; and, indeed, a kind of sunshine filled the room, and beamed from the eyes of the Polytechnic lecturer. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 5 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 13 advmod _ _ 13 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 15 tipsy tipsy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 quite quite ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 beamed beam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 conj _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 Polytechnic polytechnic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 lecturer lecturer NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | must | | | | magic; there | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | participle | | magic | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **become** | should | I | | | | | certainly, tipsy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **happen** | past · do-support | that | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **seem** | past | my mind | | | | | clear *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fill** | past | a kind of sunshine | the room | | | | indeed *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient | | 7 | **beam** | participle | a kind of sunshine *not said here* | | | the eyes of the Polytechnic lecturer | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mind** | | my | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/36/) - ↑ back to [The Puppet-show Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/)