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title: "'It will be good for him if we pull him to pieces, and anger him a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'It will be good for him if we pull him to pieces, and anger him a little, otherwise he will get too good an opinion of himself.' Who acts: punctuation, we, anger. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 27

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"'It will be good for him if we pull him to pieces, and anger him a little, otherwise he will get too good an opinion of himself.'

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**Who acts:** punctuation, we, anger · **What happens:** be, pull, get, opine · **To what, where:** editor, pieces, good opinion, anger

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punctuation, we, anger), 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:pg27200:103:27
# text = "'It will be good for him if we pull him to pieces, and anger him a little, otherwise he will get too good an opinion of himself.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | punctuation |  |  |  |  | for editor; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we | editor |  | pieces |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to piece=Destination |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | anger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | future | anger | a good opinion of anger |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opinion=Stimulus |
| 5 | **opine** *in a quote* |  |  | anger |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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