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title: If you had gone there, you would not have remained a human being, wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If you had gone there, you would not have remained a human being, whereas I became one; and at the same moment I became aware of my inner being, my inborn affinity to the nature of poetry. Who acts: you, human, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 119

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If you had gone there, you would not have remained a human being, whereas I became one; and at the same moment I became aware of my inner being, my inborn affinity to the nature of poetry.

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**Who acts:** you, human, I · **What happens:** go, not remain, be, become

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, human, I), 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:pg27200:165:119
# text = If you had gone there, you would not have remained a human being, whereas I became one; and at the same moment I became aware of my inner being, my inborn affinity to the nature of poetry.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
31	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	inborn	inborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	affinity	affinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **remain** | would · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | human |  |  |  |  | become *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | past | I |  |  |  | moment | aware *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of my inner inborn affinity; to the nature of poetry | 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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