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title: I was born with an evil mind, which has brought me hither for the se… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I was born with an evil mind, which has brought me hither for the second time; but if I have done wrong I suffer punishment for it. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 68

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I was born with an evil mind, which has brought me hither for the second time; but if I have done wrong I suffer punishment for it.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bear, bring, do, suffer · **To what, where:** I, evil mind, punishment

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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 (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:pg27200:2:68
# text = I was born with an evil mind, which has brought me hither for the second time; but if I have done wrong I suffer punishment for it.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **bear** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | with a evil mind | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | a evil mind |  |  | time | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination |
| 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suffer** | present | I | punishment |  |  |  | for punishment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus for it=Attribute |

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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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