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title: "You must not think of that," said the old woman; "we feel ourselves… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "You must not think of that," said the old woman; "we feel ourselves to be much happier and much better off than human beings." Who acts: You, old woman, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 60

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"You must not think of that," said the old woman; "we feel ourselves to be much happier and much better off than human beings."

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**Who acts:** You, old woman, we · **What happens:** not think, say, feel, be, be off · **To what, where:** ourselves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old woman, we), 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:pg27200:76:60
# text = "You must not think of that," said the old woman; "we feel ourselves to be much happier and much better off than human beings."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
18	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | must | You |  |  |  |  | of that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | we | ourselves |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be off** *in a quote* |  | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than human beings | tree rules |

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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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