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title: So I have inherited from him, not only my good temper, but a habit o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So I have inherited from him, not only my good temper, but a habit of going often to the churchyard, which is good, when done in a proper humor; and then also I take in the Intelligencer, just as he used to do. Who acts: I, habit, churchyard, truth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 11

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So I have inherited from him, not only my good temper, but a habit of going often to the churchyard, which is good, when done in a proper humor; and then also I take in the Intelligencer, just as he used to do.

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**Who acts:** I, habit, churchyard, truth, my · **What happens:** inherit, go, be, do, take, use · **To what, where:** good temper, churchyard, proper humor, Intelligencer

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, habit, churchyard, truth), 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:pg27200:16:11
# text = So I have inherited from him, not only my good temper, but a habit of going often to the churchyard, which is good, when done in a proper humor; and then also I take in the Intelligencer, just as he used to do.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
37	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Intelligencer	Intelligencer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	just	just	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inherit** | present · perfect | I | my good temper |  |  |  | from truth; a habit *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | a habit *not said here* |  |  | the churchyard |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to churchyard=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the churchyard |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | participle | the churchyard *not said here* |  |  | a proper humor |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | present | I |  |  | the Intelligencer | then |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in intelligencer=Location |
| 6 | **use** | past | truth | the Intelligencer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent intelligencer=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | truth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **temper** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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