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title: I will take you with me for old acquaintance' sake; I will pay the t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I will take you with me for old acquaintance' sake; I will pay the travelling expenses, and you write the descriptions--and if they are a little amusing for me on the way! Who acts: I, you, descriptions. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree a
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 184

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I will take you with me for old acquaintance' sake; I will pay the travelling expenses, and you write the descriptions--and if they are a little amusing for me on the way!

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**Who acts:** I, you, descriptions · **What happens:** take, pay, write, be · **To what, where:** you, travelling expenses, descriptions, way

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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 (I, you, descriptions), 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:pg1597:23:184
# text = I will take you with me for old acquaintance' sake; I will pay the travelling expenses, and you write the descriptions--and if they are a little amusing for me on the way!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | I | you |  |  |  | with me; for old acquaintance sake | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Theme for sake=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **pay** | future | I | the travelling expenses |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset |
| 3 | **write** | present | you | the descriptions |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | descriptions *= description* |  |  | the way |  | for me; a little *obl:unmarked*; amusing *property* | 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:** «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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