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title: See, there goes a chip, thinking of nothing in the world but himself… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: See, there goes a chip, thinking of nothing in the world but himself--only a chip. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 22

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See, there goes a chip, thinking of nothing in the world but himself--only a chip.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, go, think · **To what, where:** chip

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:21:22
# text = See, there goes a chip, thinking of nothing in the world but himself--only a chip.
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | present | you *not said here* | a chip |  | there |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chip=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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