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title: "I wonder whether anything so brilliant will ever happen to me," tho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I wonder whether anything so brilliant will ever happen to me," thought the fir-tree. " Who acts: fir tree, anything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 37

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"I wonder whether anything so brilliant will ever happen to me," thought the fir-tree. "

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**Who acts:** fir tree, anything · **What happens:** wonder, happen, think · **To what, where:** fir tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fir tree, anything), 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:pg27200:33:37
# text = "I wonder whether anything so brilliant will ever happen to me," thought the fir-tree. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | the fir tree *= tree* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **happen** *in a quote* | future | anything |  | the fir tree *= tree* |  | ever |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the fir tree |  |  |  |  |  | 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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