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title: "I remain here, and always shall remain, sitting at my post at the p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I remain here, and always shall remain, sitting at my post at the police office, and letting others take passports to distant lands. Who acts: Amidst, letting others. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 44

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"I remain here, and always shall remain, sitting at my post at the police office, and letting others take passports to distant lands.

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**Who acts:** Amidst, letting others · **What happens:** remain, sit, let, take · **To what, where:** post, passports, distant lands

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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 (Amidst, letting others), 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:pg27200:44:44
# text = "I remain here, and always shall remain, sitting at my post at the police office, and letting others take passports to distant lands.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	passports	passport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** *in a quote* | present | Amidst |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** *in a quote* | shall | Amidst *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | Amidst *not said here* |  |  | my post |  | at the police office | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at post=Location |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | present | letting others | passports |  | distant lands |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent passport=Theme to land=Destination |

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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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