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title: As a man, I felt ashamed to go about without boots or clothes, and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As a man, I felt ashamed to go about without boots or clothes, and that exterior finish by which man is known. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 124

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As a man, I felt ashamed to go about without boots or clothes, and that exterior finish by which man is known.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** feel, go about, know · **To what, where:** exterior finish

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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 (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:pg27200:165:124
# text = As a man, I felt ashamed to go about without boots or clothes, and that exterior finish by which man is known.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	exterior	exterior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	finish	finish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | I |  |  |  |  | as a man; ashamed *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as man=Theme |
| 2 | **go about** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without boots or clothes; about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | present · passive |  | that exterior finish by which man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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