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title: Let us draw a thick line through last year: we will even burn the al… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us draw a thick line through last year: we will even burn the almanack. Who acts: you, us, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 69

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Let us draw a thick line through last year: we will even burn the almanack.

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**Who acts:** you, us, we · **What happens:** let, draw, burn · **To what, where:** us, thick line, almanack

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we), 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:pg27200:161:69
# text = Let us draw a thick line through last year: we will even burn the almanack.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	almanack	almanack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | infinitive | us *not said here* | a thick line |  |  | year |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | future | we | the almanack |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent almanack=Theme |

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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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