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title: "I don't understand him," said the Snow Man to himself; "but I have… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I don't understand him," said the Snow Man to himself; "but I have a feeling that he is talking of something very disagreeable. Who acts: Snow Man, Man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 26

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"I don't understand him," said the Snow Man to himself; "but I have a feeling that he is talking of something very disagreeable.

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**Who acts:** Snow Man, Man · **What happens:** not understand, say, have, talk · **To what, where:** dog, feeling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow Man, Man), 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:pg27200:169:26
# text = "I don't understand him," said the Snow Man to himself; "but I have a feeling that he is talking of something very disagreeable.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **understand** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Snow Man to Man *= man* | dog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Snow Man to Man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Snow Man to Man *= man* | a feeling |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |
| 4 | **talk** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Man | a feeling *not said here* |  |  |  | of something | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent feeling=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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