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title: I knew that, for the two other qualifications are not thought much o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I knew that, for the two other qualifications are not thought much of; so I went first to seek for understanding. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 15

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I knew that, for the two other qualifications are not thought much of; so I went first to seek for understanding.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** know, not think, go, seek · **To what, where:** that, two other qualifications

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:180:15
# text = I knew that, for the two other qualifications are not thought much of; so I went first to seek for understanding.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	qualifications	qualification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the two other qualifications |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme much=Attribute |
| 3 | **go** | past | I |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for understanding | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for understanding=Theme |

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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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