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title: Let no man stretch forth a helping hand to her, and let friends and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Let no man stretch forth a helping hand to her, and let friends and relations avoid her as a plague and a pestilence!" Who acts: you, man, relations. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 37

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Let no man stretch forth a helping hand to her, and let friends and relations avoid her as a plague and a pestilence!"

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**Who acts:** you, man, relations · **What happens:** let, stretch, help, avoid · **To what, where:** man, helping hand, widow, friends

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, relations), 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:pg27200:12:37
# text = Let no man stretch forth a helping hand to her, and let friends and relations avoid her as a plague and a pestilence!"
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | no man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stretch** | infinitive | no man *not said here* | a helping hand | widow |  |  | forth *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to she=Result |
| 3 | **help** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | friends |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 5 | **avoid** | present | relations | widow |  |  |  | as a plague and a pestilence | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location |

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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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