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title: "But must we not all here on earth give up our best parts to others,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But must we not all here on earth give up our best parts to others, and offer as much as lies in our power? A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 40

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"But must we not all here on earth give up our best parts to others, and offer as much as lies in our power?

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**What happens:** give up, offer · **To what, where:** best parts, others, earth, much

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:157:40
# text = "But must we not all here on earth give up our best parts to others, and offer as much as lies in our power?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** *in a quote* | present |  | our best parts | others | earth; here |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Theme to other=Recipient |
| 2 | **offer** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent much=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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