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title: It seems a great pride to believe that we shall live for ever, that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems a great pride to believe that we shall live for ever, that we shall be as gods! Who acts: It, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 16

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It seems a great pride to believe that we shall live for ever, that we shall be as gods!

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**Who acts:** It, we · **What happens:** seem, believe, live, be · **To what, where:** great pride · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, we), 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:pg27200:158:16
# text = It seems a great pride to believe that we shall live for ever, that we shall be as gods!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It | a great pride |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pride=Attribute |
| 2 | **believe** | to-infinitive |  | a great pride *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | shall | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | as gods | tree rules |

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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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