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title: Be a good boy, Tukey, and run across and help the old woman, won't y… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Be a good boy, Tukey, and run across and help the old woman, won't you?” Who acts: good boy. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 9

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Be a good boy, Tukey, and run across and help the old woman, won't you?”

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**Who acts:** good boy · **What happens:** be, run, help · **To what, where:** good boy, old woman

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good boy), 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:pg1597:25:9
# text = Be a good boy, Tukey, and run across and help the old woman, won't you?”
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Tukey	Tukey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	across	across	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a good boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | infinitive | a good boy |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive | a good boy *not said here* |  | the old woman |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Beneficiary |

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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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