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title: Seven times have I already had the honor to be present at the distri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven times have I already had the honor to be present at the distribution of the prizes, and to vote; but to-day is the first time I have been able to carry out my will. Who acts: Seven times, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 23

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Seven times have I already had the honor to be present at the distribution of the prizes, and to vote; but to-day is the first time I have been able to carry out my will.

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**Who acts:** Seven times, I · **What happens:** have, be, vote, carry out, distribute · **To what, where:** honor, distribution, first time, prizes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven times, 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:pg27200:153:23
# text = Seven times have I already had the honor to be present at the distribution of the prizes, and to vote; but to-day is the first time I have been able to carry out my will.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	distribution	distribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	vote	vote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Seven times |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | I | the honor |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the honor *not said here* |  | the distribution of the prizes |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **vote** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | the first time |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present · perfect | I | the first time *not said here* |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **distribute** |  |  | the prizes |  |  |  |  | nom distribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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