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title: However, there are quite enough left; I should very much like to exa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: However, there are quite enough left; I should very much like to examine these a little nearer, especially the moon, for that could not slip away under one's hands. Who acts: I, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 49

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However, there are quite enough left; I should very much like to examine these a little nearer, especially the moon, for that could not slip away under one's hands.

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** be, leave, like, examine, not slip away · **To what, where:** moon, these, hands

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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:pg27200:42:49
# text = However, there are quite enough left; I should very much like to examine these a little nearer, especially the moon, for that could not slip away under one's hands.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
19	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | should | I | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **examine** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | these |  |  |  | near *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **slip away** | could | that |  |  | one's hands |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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