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title: "It makes me unhappy to think that I shall die, and leave this poor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "It makes me unhappy to think that I shall die, and leave this poor child," sighed she. " Who acts: death. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 199

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"It makes me unhappy to think that I shall die, and leave this poor child," sighed she. "

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**Who acts:** death · **What happens:** make, think, die, leave, sigh · **To what, where:** death, poor child, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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:pg27200:51:199
# text = "It makes me unhappy to think that I shall die, and leave this poor child," sighed she. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present | death | death |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | death *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | shall | death |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this poor child |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 5 | **sigh** | past |  | child |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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