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title: Be a man, as all others are, and don't go on living in ideals, for t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Be a man, as all others are, and don't go on living in ideals, for that is what drives men crazy. Who acts: man, others, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 107

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Be a man, as all others are, and don't go on living in ideals, for that is what drives men crazy.

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**Who acts:** man, others, that · **What happens:** be, not go, live, drive · **To what, where:** ideals, men

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, others, that), 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:pg27200:151:107
# text = Be a man, as all others are, and don't go on living in ideals, for that is what drives men crazy.
1	Be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ideals	ideal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	conj	_	_
23	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | infinitive | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | all others |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **go** | infinitive · do-support | all others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | gerund | all others *not said here* |  |  | ideals |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ideal=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **drive** | present |  | men |  |  |  | crazy *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |

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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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