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title: I must go down there by-and-by, and touch and taste; but I shall sit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I must go down there by-and-by, and touch and taste; but I shall sit here a little while longer, for the wind blows pleasantly at my back. Who acts: I, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 172

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I must go down there by-and-by, and touch and taste; but I shall sit here a little while longer, for the wind blows pleasantly at my back.

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**Who acts:** I, wind · **What happens:** go down, sit, blow · **To what, where:** little, back

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wind), 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:pg27200:143:172
# text = I must go down there by-and-by, and touch and taste; but I shall sit here a little while longer, for the wind blows pleasantly at my back.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
31	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | must | I |  |  | there |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **sit** | shall | I | a little |  | here |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **blow** | present | the wind |  |  | my back |  | pleasantly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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