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title: I feel the same longing I felt before; I feel that there is a life I… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I feel the same longing I felt before; I feel that there is a life I should wish to grasp and to experience. Who acts: I, life. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 68

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I feel the same longing I felt before; I feel that there is a life I should wish to grasp and to experience.

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**Who acts:** I, life · **What happens:** feel, be, wish, grasp, experience · **To what, where:** same longing, life

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, life), 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:pg27200:25:68
# text = I feel the same longing I felt before; I feel that there is a life I should wish to grasp and to experience.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	grasp	grasp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	experience	experience	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | I | the same longing |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | I | the same longing *not said here* |  |  |  | before *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | present | a life |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wish** | should | I | a life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grasp** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **experience** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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