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title: I can fancy what I should see in the whole row of ladies and gentlem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I can fancy what I should see in the whole row of ladies and gentlemen on the first seat, if I could only look into their hearts; that lady, I imagine, keeps a store for things of all descriptions; how my eyes would wander about in that collection; with many ladies I should no doubt find a large mil
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 36

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I can fancy what I should see in the whole row of ladies and gentlemen on the first seat, if I could only look into their hearts; that lady, I imagine, keeps a store for things of all descriptions; how my eyes would wander about in that collection; with many ladies I should no doubt find a large millinery establishment.

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**Who acts:** I, lady, eyes · **What happens:** fancy, see, look, imagine, keep, wander · **To what, where:** whole row, lady, store, collection, large millinery establishment

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lady, eyes), 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:pg27200:43:36
# text = I can fancy what I should see in the whole row of ladies and gentlemen on the first seat, if I could only look into their hearts; that lady, I imagine, keeps a store for things of all descriptions; how my eyes would wander about in that collection; with many ladies I should no doubt find a large millinery establishment.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	imagine	imagine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
36	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
50	about	about	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	det	_	_
53	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	62	punct	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
59	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
60	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	61	det	_	_
61	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
64	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
65	millinery	millinery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
66	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | should | I |  |  | the whole row of ladies on the first seat and gentlemen |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | I |  |  |  |  | into events's hearts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into heart=Theme |
| 4 | **imagine** | present | I | that lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lady=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | that lady | a store |  |  |  | for things of all descriptions | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme |
| 6 | **wander** | would | my eyes | that collection |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme collection=Trajectory |
| 7 | **find** | should | I | a large millinery establishment |  |  |  | with many ladies | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent establishment=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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