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title: But you, my good man, seem to have blotted your hands sufficiently w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But you, my good man, seem to have blotted your hands sufficiently with ink, and to have come to that age of satiety that you need not be running about every year for stories, especially as there are much more important things to be done. Who acts: you, that, important things. A sentence of «Fairy T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 219

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But you, my good man, seem to have blotted your hands sufficiently with ink, and to have come to that age of satiety that you need not be running about every year for stories, especially as there are much more important things to be done.

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**Who acts:** you, that, important things · **What happens:** seem, blot, come, not run about, be, do · **To what, where:** hands, age

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, important things), 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:pg27200:211:219
# text = But you, my good man, seem to have blotted your hands sufficiently with ink, and to have come to that age of satiety that you need not be running about every year for stories, especially as there are much more important things to be done.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	blotted	blot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	satiety	satiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
32	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	42	expl	_	_
42	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
43	much	much	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	_
45	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **blot** | to-infinitive · perfect | you *not said here* | your hands |  |  |  | with ink; sufficiently *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Destination with ink=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive · perfect | you *not said here* |  |  |  | to that age of satiety |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to age=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **run about** | present · progressive | that |  |  |  | year | for stories | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for story=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **does** | present | important things |  |  | there |  | especially *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | important things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |

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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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