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title: How clearly, too, we are reminded of persons whom we have not seen f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How clearly, too, we are reminded of persons whom we have not seen for many years; they start up suddenly to the mind's eye with all their peculiarities as living realities. Who acts: we, persons. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 71

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How clearly, too, we are reminded of persons whom we have not seen for many years; they start up suddenly to the mind's eye with all their peculiarities as living realities.

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**Who acts:** we, persons · **What happens:** remind, not see, start up · **To what, where:** we, persons

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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 (we, persons), 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:pg27200:42:71
# text = How clearly, too, we are reminded of persons whom we have not seen for many years; they start up suddenly to the mind's eye with all their peculiarities as living realities.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	reminded	remind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	realities	reality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remind** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  | of persons; clearly *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of person=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | we | persons |  |  | year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **start up** | present | persons *= person* |  |  |  |  | to the mind's eye; with persons's peculiarities; as living realities; suddenly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with peculiarity=Subeventuality |

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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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