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description: Besides, you good-for-nothing rascal, it is strictly forbidden to catch birds in the royal gardens of Fredericksburg; but your blue uniform betrays where you come from.” Who acts: blue uniform, you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its depe
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 99

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Besides, you good-for-nothing rascal, it is strictly forbidden to catch birds in the royal gardens of Fredericksburg; but your blue uniform betrays where you come from.”

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**Who acts:** blue uniform, you · **What happens:** forbid, catch, betray, come · **To what, where:** rascal, birds, royal gardens

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue uniform, 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:pg1597:8:99
# text = Besides, you good-for-nothing rascal, it is strictly forbidden to catch birds in the royal gardens of Fredericksburg; but your blue uniform betrays where you come from.”
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	compound	_	_
9	rascal	rascal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	betrays	betray	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | present · passive |  | rascal |  |  |  | strictly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive |  | birds |  | the royal gardens of Fredericksburg |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 3 | **betray** | present | your blue uniform |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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