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title: Invisible to men, we shall penetrate into their most secret chambers… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Invisible to men, we shall penetrate into their most secret chambers; but with sure hand you must find out him who is destined to eternal torture, and before the cock crows he must be found!" Who acts: Invisible, you, cock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 43

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Invisible to men, we shall penetrate into their most secret chambers; but with sure hand you must find out him who is destined to eternal torture, and before the cock crows he must be found!"

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**Who acts:** Invisible, you, cock · **What happens:** penetrate, find out, destine, crow, find · **To what, where:** most secret chambers, Invisible, cock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Invisible, you, cock), 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:pg27200:2:43
# text = Invisible to men, we shall penetrate into their most secret chambers; but with sure hand you must find out him who is destined to eternal torture, and before the cock crows he must be found!"
1	Invisible	invisible	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	crows	crow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **penetrate** | shall | Invisible to men |  |  | men's most secret chambers |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find out** | must | you | Invisible |  |  |  | with sure hand | tree rules |
| 3 | **destine** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to eternal torture | tree rules |
| 4 | **crow** | present | the cock |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | must · passive |  | cock |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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