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title: "Now you must not take it out to-morrow to see if it has taken root,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now you must not take it out to-morrow to see if it has taken root," said Molly; "no one ever should do that. Who acts: you, Molly, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 69

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"Now you must not take it out to-morrow to see if it has taken root," said Molly; "no one ever should do that.

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**Who acts:** you, Molly, one · **What happens:** not take out, see, take, say, do · **To what, where:** earth, it, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Molly, one), 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:pg27200:128:69
# text = "Now you must not take it out to-morrow to see if it has taken root," said Molly; "no one ever should do that.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
18	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take out** *in a quote* | must | you | earth |  |  | now | to morrow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme root=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Molly |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | should | no one | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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