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title: We will not grudge him this little walk, it was just the thing to do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We will not grudge him this little walk, it was just the thing to do him good after sitting so much. Who acts: We, walk. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 12

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We will not grudge him this little walk, it was just the thing to do him good after sitting so much.

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**Who acts:** We, walk · **What happens:** not grudge, be, do, sit · **To what, where:** man, thing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, walk), 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:pg27200:44:12
# text = We will not grudge him this little walk, it was just the thing to do him good after sitting so much.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grudge	grudge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
19	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grudge** | future | We | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | walk | the thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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