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title: "He is building up an immortality for himself," said one, "and he wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "He is building up an immortality for himself," said one, "and he will certainly build his way into one of our first families." Who acts: discourse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 32

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"He is building up an immortality for himself," said one, "and he will certainly build his way into one of our first families."

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**Who acts:** discourse · **What happens:** build up, say, build · **To what, where:** immortality, one, way · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (discourse), 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:pg27200:148:32
# text = "He is building up an immortality for himself," said one, "and he will certainly build his way into one of our first families."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build up** *in a quote* | present · progressive | discourse | a immortality |  |  |  | for discourse | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer immortality=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** *in a quote* | future | discourse | discourse's way |  |  |  | into one of our first families; certainly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into one=Product |

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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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