--- title: I am quite sure if I recollect all this tomorrow, it will appear utt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: I am quite sure if I recollect all this tomorrow, it will appear utterly ridiculous and absurd. Who acts: I, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/) / 75 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 75 I am quite sure if I recollect all this tomorrow, it will appear utterly ridiculous and absurd. **Who acts:** I, it · **What happens:** be, recollect, appear This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:44:75 # text = I am quite sure if I recollect all this tomorrow, it will appear utterly ridiculous and absurd. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 quite quite ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 recollect recollect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 ridiculous ridiculous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 absurd absurd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **recollect** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | | | | tomorrow | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **appear** | future | it | | | | | ridiculous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/76/) - ↑ back to [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/)