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title: Were I the sunbeam, I would give each one of them a sun stroke; but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Were I the sunbeam, I would give each one of them a sun stroke; but that would only make them mad, and they are mad enough already. Who acts: I, that, judges. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 49

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Were I the sunbeam, I would give each one of them a sun stroke; but that would only make them mad, and they are mad enough already.

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**Who acts:** I, that, judges · **What happens:** be, give, make · **To what, where:** sunbeam, one, judges

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, judges), 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:pg27200:153:49
# text = Were I the sunbeam, I would give each one of them a sun stroke; but that would only make them mad, and they are mad enough already.
1	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
29	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	already	already	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | I | the sunbeam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | would | I | each one of judges |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient stroke=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | would | that | judges *= judge* |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present | judges *= judge* |  |  |  |  | enough, mad *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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