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title: “I would willingly go to the manorhouse, be boiled, and laid on a si… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I would willingly go to the manorhouse, be boiled, and laid on a silver dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it, you may be sure!” Who acts: dame, something, you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its depe
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 23

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“I would willingly go to the manorhouse, be boiled, and laid on a silver dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it, you may be sure!”

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**Who acts:** dame, something, you · **What happens:** go, boil, lay, treat, be · **To what, where:** manorhouse, silver dish, forefathers

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dame, something, you), 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:pg1597:20:23
# text = “I would willingly go to the manorhouse, be boiled, and laid on a silver dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it, you may be sure!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	manorhouse	manorhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
31	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | would | the dame *= dame* |  |  | the manorhouse |  | willingly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to manorhouse=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **boil** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **lay** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | a silver dish |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on dish=Destination |
| 4 | **treat** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | our forefathers |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | something |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | may | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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