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title: "'You are in my pocket; you can't come out till you promise to unite… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'You are in my pocket; you can't come out till you promise to unite me to your daughter Glove on the left. Who acts: You. 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 90

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"'You are in my pocket; you can't come out till you promise to unite me to your daughter Glove on the left.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** be, not come out, promise, unite · **To what, where:** pocket, Waistcoat

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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), 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:pg27200:127:90
# text = "'You are in my pocket; you can't come out till you promise to unite me to your daughter Glove on the left.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	unite	unite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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* | present | You |  |  | my pocket |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **come out** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **unite** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the Waistcoat *= waistcoat* |  |  |  | to your daughter Glove on the left | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to glove=Co-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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