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title: You will have time to think that over; but go across to the old Coun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You will have time to think that over; but go across to the old Count this very day, and thank God for having sent you such a friend." 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 eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 8

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You will have time to think that over; but go across to the old Count this very day, and thank God for having sent you such a friend."

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** have, think, go, thank, send · **To what, where:** old Count, God, you

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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:pg27200:147:8
# text = You will have time to think that over; but go across to the old Count this very day, and thank God for having sent you such a friend."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	across	across	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	aux	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | You |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | the old Count | day | across *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to count=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | God |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 5 | **send** | gerund · perfect |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:** «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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