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title: "I know it," said the angel, "because I myself was the poor sick boy… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I know it," said the angel, "because I myself was the poor sick boy who walked upon crutches, and I know my own flower well." Who acts: angel, poor sick boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 35

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"I know it," said the angel, "because I myself was the poor sick boy who walked upon crutches, and I know my own flower well."

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**Who acts:** angel, poor sick boy · **What happens:** know, say, be, walk · **To what, where:** joy, poor sick boy, crutches, own flower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, poor sick boy), 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:pg27200:4:35
# text = "I know it," said the angel, "because I myself was the poor sick boy who walked upon crutches, and I know my own flower well."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
14	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	crutches	crutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the angel *= angel* | joy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the angel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the angel *= angel* | the poor sick boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | the poor sick boy |  |  | crutches |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon crutch=Trajectory |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the angel *= angel* | my own flower |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |

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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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