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title: A man certainly cannot see much of the world if he is tied up in a b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A man certainly cannot see much of the world if he is tied up in a bag, and this was really the shilling's fate. Who acts: man, this. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 11

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A man certainly cannot see much of the world if he is tied up in a bag, and this was really the shilling's fate.

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**Who acts:** man, this · **What happens:** not see, tie up, be · **To what, where:** much, man, bag, fate

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, this), 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:pg27200:167:11
# text = A man certainly cannot see much of the world if he is tied up in a bag, and this was really the shilling's fate.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | a man | much of the world |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tie up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | man |  | a bag |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the shilling's fate |  |  |  |  | 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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