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title: I will find out something for you to think of which he will never gu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I will find out something for you to think of which he will never guess, unless he is a greater conjuror than myself. Who acts: I, magician. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 40

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I will find out something for you to think of which he will never guess, unless he is a greater conjuror than myself.

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**Who acts:** I, magician · **What happens:** find out, think, not guess, be · **To what, where:** something, greater conjuror · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, magician), 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:pg27200:198:40
# text = I will find out something for you to think of which he will never guess, unless he is a greater conjuror than myself.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	conjuror	conjuror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | future | I | something |  |  |  | for you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **guess** | future | magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of which=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | magician | a greater conjuror |  |  |  | than myself | 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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