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title: I know I am now only a poor journeyman shoemaker, but I will work an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I know I am now only a poor journeyman shoemaker, but I will work and strive, and become a master in time. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 3

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I know I am now only a poor journeyman shoemaker, but I will work and strive, and become a master in time.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** know, be, work, strive, become · **To what, where:** poor journeyman shoemaker, master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:203:3
# text = I know I am now only a poor journeyman shoemaker, but I will work and strive, and become a master in time.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	journeyman	journeyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | a poor journeyman shoemaker |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **strive** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **become** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a master in time |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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