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title: It is true I did not think much about it while I was with you, but y… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is true I did not think much about it while I was with you, but you will remember that I was always much larger at sunrise and sunset, and in the moonlight even more visible than yourself, but I did not then understand my inner existence. Who acts: human, I, you, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 120

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It is true I did not think much about it while I was with you, but you will remember that I was always much larger at sunrise and sunset, and in the moonlight even more visible than yourself, but I did not then understand my inner existence.

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**Who acts:** human, I, you, my · **What happens:** be, not think, remember, not understand, exist · **To what, where:** inner existence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (human, I, you, my), 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:pg27200:165:120
# text = It is true I did not think much about it while I was with you, but you will remember that I was always much larger at sunrise and sunset, and in the moonlight even more visible than yourself, but I did not then understand my inner existence.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	parataxis	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
39	than	than	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
46	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
47	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	parataxis	_	_
48	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | human |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | about human | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 4 | **remember** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  | sunrise | large *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | I | my inner existence |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer existence=Stimulus |
| 7 | **exist** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state 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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