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title: I know them all, and their thoughts, those spirits of strength!" and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I know them all, and their thoughts, those spirits of strength!" and again she laughed. Who acts: I, thoughts, Millions. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 35

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I know them all, and their thoughts, those spirits of strength!" and again she laughed.

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**Who acts:** I, thoughts, Millions · **What happens:** know, laugh, think · **To what, where:** Millions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thoughts, Millions), 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:pg27200:60:35
# text = I know them all, and their thoughts, those spirits of strength!" and again she laughed.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I | Millions *= million* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **laugh** *in a quote* | past | Millions's thoughts and that spirits of strength |  |  |  | again |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** |  | Millions *= million* |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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