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title: It must be a shocking thing to have a guilty conscience, and to be s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It must be a shocking thing to have a guilty conscience, and to be sneaking about on account of wicked deeds. Who acts: silver. 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 34

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It must be a shocking thing to have a guilty conscience, and to be sneaking about on account of wicked deeds.

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**Who acts:** silver · **What happens:** be, have, sneak, account · **To what, where:** shocking thing, guilty conscience, account, wicked deeds

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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 (silver), 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:pg27200:167:34
# text = It must be a shocking thing to have a guilty conscience, and to be sneaking about on account of wicked deeds.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | silver | a shocking thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | a guilty conscience |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conscience=Patient |
| 3 | **sneak** | to-infinitive · progressive |  |  |  | account of wicked deeds |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on account=Trajectory |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | wicked deeds |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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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