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title: I looked in, and saw what nobody else could see, or indeed ought to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I looked in, and saw what nobody else could see, or indeed ought to see; in fact, it is a bad world, and I would not care to be a man, but that men are of some importance. Who acts: I, nobody, fact, men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 131

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I looked in, and saw what nobody else could see, or indeed ought to see; in fact, it is a bad world, and I would not care to be a man, but that men are of some importance.

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**Who acts:** I, nobody, fact, men · **What happens:** look in, see, be, not care · **To what, where:** bad world, fact, man · **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 (I, nobody, fact, men), 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:pg27200:165:131
# text = I looked in, and saw what nobody else could see, or indeed ought to see; in fact, it is a bad world, and I would not care to be a man, but that men are of some importance.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look in** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | could | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | present | fact | a bad world |  | fact |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **care** | would | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | present | men |  |  |  |  | of some importance | 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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