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title: This was done, it might be from pride, or perhaps that the new shado… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This was done, it might be from pride, or perhaps that the new shadow might cling to him, but the prostrate shadow remained quite quiet and at rest, in order that it might listen, for it wanted to know how a shadow could be sent away by its master, and become a man itself. " Who acts: arm, new shado
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 89

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This was done, it might be from pride, or perhaps that the new shadow might cling to him, but the prostrate shadow remained quite quiet and at rest, in order that it might listen, for it wanted to know how a shadow could be sent away by its master, and become a man itself. "

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**Who acts:** arm, new shadow, prostrate shadow, master · **What happens:** do, be, cling, remain, listen, want · **To what, where:** This, pride, man, order, shadow · **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 (arm, new shadow, prostrate shadow, master), 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:pg27200:165:89
# text = This was done, it might be from pride, or perhaps that the new shadow might cling to him, but the prostrate shadow remained quite quiet and at rest, in order that it might listen, for it wanted to know how a shadow could be sent away by its master, and become a man itself. "
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cling	cling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	ccomp	_	_
51	away	away	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	xcomp	_	_
60	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	59	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | might | arm |  |  | pride |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cling** | might | the new shadow |  | man |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **remain** | past | the prostrate shadow |  |  | order |  | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location |
| 5 | **listen** | might | arm | order *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **want** | past | arm |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | arm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **send away** | could · passive | arm's master | a shadow |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 9 | **become** | infinitive |  | a man  arm |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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