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title: There need not, however, be any haste about that; but you are always… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There need not, however, be any haste about that; but you are always in such a tremendous hurry, and the little one is beginning to be the same. Who acts: you, little one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 26

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There need not, however, be any haste about that; but you are always in such a tremendous hurry, and the little one is beginning to be the same.

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**Who acts:** you, little one · **What happens:** not need, be, begin · **To what, where:** haste, tremendous hurry

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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 (you, little one), 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:pg1597:20:26
# text = There need not, however, be any haste about that; but you are always in such a tremendous hurry, and the little one is beginning to be the same.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | any haste |  |  |  | about that; however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  | such tremendous hurry |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | present · progressive | the little one |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | the little one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | same *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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