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title: "I suppose it is only on our account that you perform this common-pl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I suppose it is only on our account that you perform this common-place work yourself, instead of leaving it to your servant to do all that sticking together." Who acts: Thorwalsden, clay, you, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 73

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"I suppose it is only on our account that you perform this common-place work yourself, instead of leaving it to your servant to do all that sticking together."

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**Who acts:** Thorwalsden, clay, you, that · **What happens:** suppose, be, perform, leave, do, stick together · **To what, where:** account, clay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thorwalsden, clay, you, that), 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:pg27200:7:73
# text = "I suppose it is only on our account that you perform this common-place work yourself, instead of leaving it to your servant to do all that sticking together."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present | Thorwalsden |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | clay |  |  | our account |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **perform** *in a quote* | present | you | our account |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | gerund | Thorwalsden *not said here* | clay |  |  |  | to your servant | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | clay *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stick together** *in a quote* | gerund | that |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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