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title: But I have remained here--must always remain here, sitting at my des… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But I have remained here--must always remain here, sitting at my desk in the office, and patiently see other people fetch their passports to go abroad. Who acts: I, other people. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 48

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But I have remained here--must always remain here, sitting at my desk in the office, and patiently see other people fetch their passports to go abroad.

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**Who acts:** I, other people · **What happens:** remain, sit, see, fetch, go · **To what, where:** desk, passports · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (I, other people), 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:pg1597:8:48
# text = But I have remained here--must always remain here, sitting at my desk in the office, and patiently see other people fetch their passports to go abroad.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	passports	passport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present · perfect | I |  |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | must | I *not said here* |  |  | here |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | my desk |  | in the office | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at desk=Location |
| 4 | **see** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | patiently *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fetch** | present | other people | people's passports |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passport=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | other people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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