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title: The child does not know, when we fly through the room, that we smile… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The child does not know, when we fly through the room, that we smile with joy at his good conduct, for we can count one year less of our three hundred years. Who acts: child, we, air. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 54

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The child does not know, when we fly through the room, that we smile with joy at his good conduct, for we can count one year less of our three hundred years.

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**Who acts:** child, we, air · **What happens:** not know, fly, smile, count, conduct · **To what, where:** room, good conduct, less

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, we, air), 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:pg27200:78:54
# text = The child does not know, when we fly through the room, that we smile with joy at his good conduct, for we can count one year less of our three hundred years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	smile	smile	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	compound	_	_
34	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fly** | present | we |  |  | the room |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through room=Location |
| 3 | **smile** | present | we |  |  | air's good conduct |  | with joy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count** | can | we | less |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme |
| 5 | **conduct** |  | air |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act 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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