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title: I will practise only the good and true; with these I will protect th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I will practise only the good and true; with these I will protect the beautiful. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 72

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I will practise only the good and true; with these I will protect the beautiful.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** practise, protect · **To what, where:** good, beautiful

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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), 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:pg27200:143:72
# text = I will practise only the good and true; with these I will protect the beautiful.
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	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | future | I | the good |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **protect** | future | I | the beautiful |  |  |  | with these | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beautiful=Beneficiary |

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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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