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title: I should have been glad in my joy to throw out sparks of fire, but i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I should have been glad in my joy to throw out sparks of fire, but it has never at any time been my nature to sparkle. Who acts: I, fire, time, my. 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 clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 81

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I should have been glad in my joy to throw out sparks of fire, but it has never at any time been my nature to sparkle.

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**Who acts:** I, fire, time, my · **What happens:** be, throw out, have, not be, sparkle, joy · **To what, where:** joy, sparks, nature

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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 (I, fire, time, my), 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:pg27200:167:81
# text = I should have been glad in my joy to throw out sparks of fire, but it has never at any time been my nature to sparkle.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	sparkle	sparkle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should · perfect | I |  |  | my joy |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | sparks of fire |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | participle | time |  |  | my nature |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sparkle** | to-infinitive | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **joy** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **spark** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=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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