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title: I thought over all this, and saw quite plainly that if truth was rea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I thought over all this, and saw quite plainly that if truth was really so far above everything else, it must be much more valuable than soup from a sausage skewer. Who acts: I, truth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 46

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I thought over all this, and saw quite plainly that if truth was really so far above everything else, it must be much more valuable than soup from a sausage skewer.

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**Who acts:** I, truth · **What happens:** think over, see, be · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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, truth), 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:pg27200:181:46
# text = I thought over all this, and saw quite plainly that if truth was really so far above everything else, it must be much more valuable than soup from a sausage skewer.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
13	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
18	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	_
20	else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think over** *speech: other* | past | I | this |  |  |  | over *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | must · past | truth |  |  |  |  | than soup from a sausage skewer; far, valuable *property* | tree rules |

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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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