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title: Let us remember his improvements of seven and twenty years, if we ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us remember his improvements of seven and twenty years, if we cannot forget his crime. Who acts: you, us, we, seven years. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 53

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Let us remember his improvements of seven and twenty years, if we cannot forget his crime.

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**Who acts:** you, us, we, seven years, Christian · **What happens:** let, remember, not forget, improve, incriminate · **To what, where:** us, improvements, crime

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. 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, seven years), 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:pg27200:190:53
# text = Let us remember his improvements of seven and twenty years, if we cannot forget his crime.
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	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	improvements	improvement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 | **remember** | infinitive | us *not said here* | Christian's improvements of seven years |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent improvement=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **forget** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | we | Christian's crime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **improve** |  | seven years |  |  |  |  |  | nom improvement «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **incriminate** |  | Christian |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «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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