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title: The hare most decidedly must have it; and I, as an active and though… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The hare most decidedly must have it; and I, as an active and thoughtful member of the committee, took especial care that the prize should be one of advantage to him; so now he is provided for. Who acts: hare, prize. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 56

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The hare most decidedly must have it; and I, as an active and thoughtful member of the committee, took especial care that the prize should be one of advantage to him; so now he is provided for.

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**Who acts:** hare, prize · **What happens:** have, take, be, provide · **To what, where:** admission, especial care, one, hare

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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 (hare, prize), 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:pg27200:153:56
# text = The hare most decidedly must have it; and I, as an active and thoughtful member of the committee, took especial care that the prize should be one of advantage to him; so now he is provided for.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	decidedly	decidedly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	especial	especial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | must | the hare | admission |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | especial care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | should | the prize | one |  |  |  | of advantage to hare | tree rules |
| 4 | **provide** | present · passive |  | hare |  |  | now |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=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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