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title: Suppose I were to go back now and say how ill I feel, I fear it woul… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Suppose I were to go back now and say how ill I feel, I fear it would look so ridiculous, and it is not very likely that I should find any one up." Who acts: you, I, glass. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 44

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Suppose I were to go back now and say how ill I feel, I fear it would look so ridiculous, and it is not very likely that I should find any one up."

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**Who acts:** you, I, glass · **What happens:** suppose, go back, say, be, fear, look · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, glass), 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:pg27200:41:44
# text = Suppose I were to go back now and say how ill I feel, I fear it would look so ridiculous, and it is not very likely that I should find any one up."
1	Suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go back** | past | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fear** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **look** | would | glass |  |  |  |  | ridiculous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | glass |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **find up** | should | I | any one |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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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