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title: Go away from here to our old manor house; but you had better bite yo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Go away from here to our old manor house; but you had better bite your tongue off than spread any lies among the people." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 73

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Go away from here to our old manor house; but you had better bite your tongue off than spread any lies among the people."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go away, have, bite off, spread · **To what, where:** tongue, lies

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. 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:pg27200:149:73
# text = Go away from here to our old manor house; but you had better bite your tongue off than spread any lies among the people."
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	manor	manor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bite off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your tongue |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
| 4 | **spread** | past | you *not said here* | any lies |  |  |  | among the people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lie=Theme among people=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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