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title: How could I fancy that I should ever be the means of bringing knowle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How could I fancy that I should ever be the means of bringing knowledge and joy to man? Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 48

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How could I fancy that I should ever be the means of bringing knowledge and joy to man?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** fancy, be, bring · **To what, where:** knowledge, man

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. 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:pg27200:34:48
# text = How could I fancy that I should ever be the means of bringing knowledge and joy to man?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	nsubj	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	TO	_	18	case	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | could | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  | ever | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | I *not said here* | knowledge and joy | man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme to man=Destination |

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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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