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title: I fancy that Death took these two teeth out of the savings bank of l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I fancy that Death took these two teeth out of the savings bank of life, and gave them to Louis XI, to carry with him on the great journey into the land of immortality; they fly before him like two flames of fire; they shine and burn, and they bite him, the innocent children's teeth. Who acts: I, De
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 55

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I fancy that Death took these two teeth out of the savings bank of life, and gave them to Louis XI, to carry with him on the great journey into the land of immortality; they fly before him like two flames of fire; they shine and burn, and they bite him, the innocent children's teeth.

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**Who acts:** I, Death, life, fire · **What happens:** fancy, take, give, carry, fly, shine · **To what, where:** two teeth, savings bank, life, great journey, death

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Death, life, fire), 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:pg27200:138:55
# text = I fancy that Death took these two teeth out of the savings bank of life, and gave them to Louis XI, to carry with him on the great journey into the land of immortality; they fly before him like two flames of fire; they shine and burn, and they bite him, the innocent children's teeth.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	compound	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	XI	XI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
40	before	before	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	's	's	PART	POS	_	60	case	_	_
62	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | Death | this two teeth |  | the savings bank of life |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme out bank=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | past | Death *not said here* |  | life |  |  | to Louis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to louis=Recipient |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Death *not said here* |  |  | the great journey |  | with death; into the land of immortality | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fly** | present | life |  |  |  | before death | like two flames of fire | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
| 6 | **shine** | present | life |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **burn** | present | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bite** | present | life | death |  |  |  | the innocent children's teeth *obl* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 9 | **flame** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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