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title: I have seen what no human being has the power of knowing, although t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I have seen what no human being has the power of knowing, although they would all be very glad to know--the evil conduct of their neighbors. Who acts: I, power, children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 133

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I have seen what no human being has the power of knowing, although they would all be very glad to know--the evil conduct of their neighbors.

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**Who acts:** I, power, children · **What happens:** see, have, know, be, conduct · **To what, where:** power, neighbors · **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, power, children), 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:pg27200:165:133
# text = I have seen what no human being has the power of knowing, although they would all be very glad to know--the evil conduct of their neighbors.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | the power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | the power *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | would | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | all, glad *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **conduct** |  |  | children's neighbors |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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