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title: I have also seen your sketches; but we will not say any more about t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I have also seen your sketches; but we will not say any more about those, for there is a good deal to correct in them. Who acts: I, we, good deal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 5

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I have also seen your sketches; but we will not say any more about those, for there is a good deal to correct in them.

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**Who acts:** I, we, good deal · **What happens:** see, not say, be, correct · **To what, where:** sketches, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, good deal), 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:pg27200:147:5
# text = I have also seen your sketches; but we will not say any more about those, for there is a good deal to correct in them.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sketches	sketch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	any	any	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	correct	correct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | I | your sketches |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sketch=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | future | we | more |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | present | a good deal |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | a good deal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in sketches *= sketch* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |

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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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