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title: "Dance you shall," said he, "dance in your red shoes till you are pa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dance you shall," said he, "dance in your red shoes till you are pale and cold, till your skin shrivels up and you are a skeleton! Who acts: Dance, you, skin. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 62

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"Dance you shall," said he, "dance in your red shoes till you are pale and cold, till your skin shrivels up and you are a skeleton!

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**Who acts:** Dance, you, skin · **What happens:** say, dance, be, shrivel up · **To what, where:** red shoes, skeleton · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dance, you, skin), 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:pg27200:154:62
# text = "Dance you shall," said he, "dance in your red shoes till you are pale and cold, till your skin shrivels up and you are a skeleton!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	shrivels	shrivel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Dance |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dance** *in a quote* |  | Dance |  |  | your red shoes |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shrivel up** *in a quote* | present | your skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a skeleton |  |  |  |  | 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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