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title: Ah," thought the shilling, "this is pleasant; I shall now see the wo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah," thought the shilling, "this is pleasant; I shall now see the world, become acquainted with other people, and learn other customs." Who acts: this, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 18

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Ah," thought the shilling, "this is pleasant; I shall now see the world, become acquainted with other people, and learn other customs."

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**Who acts:** this, I · **What happens:** think, be, see, become, learn · **To what, where:** shilling, world, other customs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (this, I), 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:pg27200:167:18
# text = Ah," thought the shilling, "this is pleasant; I shall now see the world, become acquainted with other people, and learn other customs."
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past |  | the shilling |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shilling=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | shall | I | the world |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |
| 4 | **become** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | acquainted *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **learn** | infinitive | I *not said here* | other customs |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Topic |

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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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