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title: Take them again, they are now brighter than before; now look down in… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 76

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Take them again, they are now brighter than before; now look down into the deep well close by; I shall tell thee the names of the two flowers thou wouldst have torn up, and thou wilt see their whole future life--their whole human existence: and see what thou wast about to disturb and destroy.”

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**Who acts:** you, eyes, I, two flowers, thou · **What happens:** take, be, look down, tell, tear up, see · **To what, where:** eyes, names, thee, thou, whole future life, two flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eyes, I, two flowers), 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:pg1597:21:76
# text = Take them again, they are now brighter than before; now look down into the deep well close by; I shall tell thee the names of the two flowers thou wouldst have torn up, and thou wilt see their whole future life--their whole human existence: and see what thou wast about to disturb and destroy.”
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	before	before	ADV	RB	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	iobj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nsubj	_	_
40	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
43	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
48	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
54	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	56	obj	_	_
55	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	56	nsubj	_	_
56	wast	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	ccomp	_	_
57	about	about	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	xcomp	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | now | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look down** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | into the deep; close *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into deep=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | shall | I | the names of the two flowers | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient name=Topic |
| 5 | **tear up** | would · perfect · passive | the two flowers *not said here* | thou |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | future | thou | eyes's whole future life |  |  |  | eyes's whole human existence *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
| 7 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **disturb** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **destroy** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **name** |  |  | the two flowers |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **exist** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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