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title: Now do be sensible and accept my proposal; we shall travel as intima… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now do be sensible and accept my proposal; we shall travel as intimate friends." Who acts: we, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 169

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Now do be sensible and accept my proposal; we shall travel as intimate friends."

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**Who acts:** we, my · **What happens:** be, accept, travel, propose · **To what, where:** proposal

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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:pg27200:165:169
# text = Now do be sensible and accept my proposal; we shall travel as intimate friends."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  | now | sensible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accept** | infinitive |  | my proposal |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme |
| 3 | **travel** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | as intimate friends | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **propose** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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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