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title: Give that to a chicken," she said, "and don't be always standing in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Give that to a chicken," she said, "and don't be always standing in my way." Who acts: you, madam. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 89

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Give that to a chicken," she said, "and don't be always standing in my way."

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**Who acts:** you, madam · **What happens:** give, say, do, not be · **To what, where:** that, chicken, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, madam), 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:pg27200:145:89
# text = Give that to a chicken," she said, "and don't be always standing in my way."
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | madam |  | a chicken |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to chicken=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | my way |  | always, stand *property* | tree rules |

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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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