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title: I will disclose everything, and say that I am the man, and that you… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I will disclose everything, and say that I am the man, and that you are only a shadow dressed up in men's clothes." Who acts: I, you. 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 231

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I will disclose everything, and say that I am the man, and that you are only a shadow dressed up in men's clothes."

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** disclose, say, be, dress up · **To what, where:** everything, man, shadow, clothes · **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, you), 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:pg27200:165:231
# text = I will disclose everything, and say that I am the man, and that you are only a shadow dressed up in men's clothes."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	disclose	disclose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
21	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disclose** | future | I | everything |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | I | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | you | a shadow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dress up** | participle |  | a shadow *not said here* |  | men's clothes |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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