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title: We might fancy the soul inquiring of the police, or at the address o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We might fancy the soul inquiring of the police, or at the address office, or among the missing parcels, and then at length finding it at the hospital. Who acts: We, soul, length. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 87

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We might fancy the soul inquiring of the police, or at the address office, or among the missing parcels, and then at length finding it at the hospital.

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**Who acts:** We, soul, length · **What happens:** fancy, inquire, find · **To what, where:** soul, notice, hospital

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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, soul, length), 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:pg27200:42:87
# text = We might fancy the soul inquiring of the police, or at the address office, or among the missing parcels, and then at length finding it at the hospital.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parcels	parcel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
27	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | might | We | the soul |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=Stimulus |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | gerund | the soul *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the police or the address office or the missing parcels | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of police=Recipient |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | length *not said here* | notice |  | the hospital |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at hospital=Asset |

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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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