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title: There's a loved one at home who thinks of me; Home and friends I can… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There's a loved one at home who thinks of me; Home and friends I can ne'er forget, And I mean to be a master yet." Who acts: loved one, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 132

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There's a loved one at home who thinks of me; Home and friends I can ne'er forget, And I mean to be a master yet."

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**Who acts:** loved one, I · **What happens:** be, love, think, forget, mean · **To what, where:** Home, friends, master

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loved one, I), 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:pg27200:177:132
# text = There's a loved one at home who thinks of me; Home and friends I can ne'er forget, And I mean to be a master yet."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Home	Home	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	ne'er	ne'er	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a loved one at home | Home and friends |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a loved one at home |  |  |  |  | of me | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forget** | can | I | friends *not said here* |  |  |  | ne'er *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present | I |  |  |  | yet |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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