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title: "'O Glove, my own dear, Though it cost thee a tear, Thou must be min… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'O Glove, my own dear, Though it cost thee a tear, Thou must be mine, For Holger Danske has sworn it!' Who acts: you, word, Thou, Holger. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 71

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"'O Glove, my own dear, Though it cost thee a tear, Thou must be mine, For Holger Danske has sworn it!'

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**Who acts:** you, word, Thou, Holger · **What happens:** glove, cost, be, swear · **To what, where:** tear, thee, Pipe head, word

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, word, Thou, Holger), 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:pg27200:127:71
# text = "'O Glove, my own dear, Though it cost thee a tear, Thou must be mine, For Holger Danske has sworn it!'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	Glove	glove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	Holger	Holger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	Danske	Danske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glove** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cost** *in a quote* | past | word | a tear | thee |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme thou=Beneficiary tear=Value |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | Thou | Pipe head *= head* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **swear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Holger | word |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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