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title: It is not my habit to talk much; but now that we have so little time… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not my habit to talk much; but now that we have so little time to converse together, I will say something more than usual. Who acts: dog, we, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 7

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It is not my habit to talk much; but now that we have so little time to converse together, I will say something more than usual.

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**Who acts:** dog, we, I · **What happens:** not be, talk, have, converse, say · **To what, where:** habit, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, we, 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:pg27200:53:7
# text = It is not my habit to talk much; but now that we have so little time to converse together, I will say something more than usual.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	converse	converse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | dog | my habit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | we |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **converse** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | I | something |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |

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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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