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title: I keep it in my diary, in which I write for my own use and pleasure… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I keep it in my diary, in which I write for my own use and pleasure a history of all who lie here, and a few more beside. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 22

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I keep it in my diary, in which I write for my own use and pleasure a history of all who lie here, and a few more beside.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** keep, write, pleasure, lie, use · **To what, where:** deal, diary, history

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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, my), 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:pg27200:16:22
# text = I keep it in my diary, in which I write for my own use and pleasure a history of all who lie here, and a few more beside.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
30	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | I | deal |  | my diary |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in diary=Location |
| 2 | **write** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for my own use | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination |
| 3 | **pleasure** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a history of all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | present |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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