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title: It will be a great pleasure for me to have you with me; I shall pay… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It will be a great pleasure for me to have you with me; I shall pay the travelling expenses!” Who acts: It, me, I. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 171

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It will be a great pleasure for me to have you with me; I shall pay the travelling expenses!”

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**Who acts:** It, me, I · **What happens:** be, have, pay · **To what, where:** great pleasure, you, travelling expenses

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, me, I), 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:pg1597:23:171
# text = It will be a great pleasure for me to have you with me; I shall pay the travelling expenses!”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future | It | a great pleasure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | me | you |  |  |  | with me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** | shall | I | the travelling expenses |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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