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title: I come here often, and if any of my friends, or those who are not my… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I come here often, and if any of my friends, or those who are not my friends, are too much for me, I go out and choose a plot of ground in which to bury him or her. Who acts: I, any. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 55

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I come here often, and if any of my friends, or those who are not my friends, are too much for me, I go out and choose a plot of ground in which to bury him or her.

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**Who acts:** I, any · **What happens:** come, not be, be, go out, choose, bury · **To what, where:** friends, plot, poet, ground

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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, any), 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:pg27200:16:55
# text = I come here often, and if any of my friends, or those who are not my friends, are too much for me, I go out and choose a plot of ground in which to bury him or her.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | I |  |  | here |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present |  | my friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any |  |  |  |  | for me; much *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go out** | present | I |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **choose** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a plot of ground |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Theme |
| 6 | **bury** | to-infinitive |  | poet |  | a plot of ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in which=Destination |
| 7 | **plot** |  |  | ground |  |  |  |  | nom plot «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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