Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 32

One may however be mistaken sometimes; and so was I, for this was a respectable and well-educated old owl, who knew more than the watchman, and even as much as I did myself.

Who acts: this, respectable educated old owl, I · What happens: mistake, be, know, do · To what, where: One, I, more, myself

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, respectable educated old owl, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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