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title: I suppose he is under the ground now; and Ida--alas! alas! it is not… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I suppose he is under the ground now; and Ida--alas! alas! it is not ended yet; miserable that I am! Who acts: I, husband, owner. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 191

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I suppose he is under the ground now; and Ida--alas! alas! it is not ended yet; miserable that I am!

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**Who acts:** I, husband, owner · **What happens:** suppose, be, not be · **To what, where:** alas, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, husband, owner), 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:pg27200:212:191
# text = I suppose he is under the ground now; and Ida--alas! alas! it is not ended yet; miserable that I am!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	ended	ended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present | I | Ida's alas |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ala=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | husband |  |  | the ground |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | owner |  |  |  | yet | ended *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | that I; miserable *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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