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title: But from this time forward you may come twice a-week to my drawing-c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But from this time forward you may come twice a-week to my drawing-class, and then you will soon learn how to do them better. Who acts: you. 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 clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 6

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But from this time forward you may come twice a-week to my drawing-class, and then you will soon learn how to do them better.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come, learn, do · **To what, where:** drawing class, sketches

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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 (you), 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:pg27200:147:6
# text = But from this time forward you may come twice a-week to my drawing-class, and then you will soon learn how to do them better.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | may | you |  |  | my drawing class | time; week | twice *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to class=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **learn** | future | you |  |  |  | then | soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | sketches *= sketch* |  |  |  | good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |

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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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