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title: You give the fluid that I may place upon the paper what dwells in me… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You give the fluid that I may place upon the paper what dwells in me, and what I wish to bring to light. Who acts: You, fluid, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 13

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You give the fluid that I may place upon the paper what dwells in me, and what I wish to bring to light.

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**Who acts:** You, fluid, I · **What happens:** give, place, wish, bring · **To what, where:** fluid, dwells, light

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fluid, I), 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:pg27200:142:13
# text = You give the fluid that I may place upon the paper what dwells in me, and what I wish to bring to light.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	conj	_	_
13	dwells	dwell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | You | the fluid |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluid=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | may | the fluid |  |  |  |  | upon the paper | tree rules |
| 3 | **wish** | present | I | dwells in me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | light |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to light=Destination |

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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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