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title: It seemed to me so sure that I took poison, which I secretly carried… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed to me so sure that I took poison, which I secretly carried about me; and in a few hours its effects will destroy me. Who acts: It, I, effects, poison. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 49

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It seemed to me so sure that I took poison, which I secretly carried about me; and in a few hours its effects will destroy me.

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**Who acts:** It, I, effects, poison · **What happens:** seem, take, carry, destroy, effect · **To what, where:** me, poison

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, effects, poison), 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:pg27200:67:49
# text = It seemed to me so sure that I took poison, which I secretly carried about me; and in a few hours its effects will destroy me.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | me |  |  | sure *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | I | poison |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past | I | poison |  |  |  | about me; secretly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** | future | poison's effects | me |  |  | hour |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **effect** |  | poison |  |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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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