---
title: If he turns round, kill him and take away the money I paid him, but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If he turns round, kill him and take away the money I paid him, but if he does not turn round let him go in peace." Who acts: Bugge, you, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/62/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/) / 62

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 62

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
If he turns round, kill him and take away the money I paid him, but if he does not turn round let him go in peace."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Bugge, you, I · **What happens:** turn round, kill, take away, pay, not turn round, let · **To what, where:** Bugge, money, peace

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bugge, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:159:62
# text = If he turns round, kill him and take away the money I paid him, but if he does not turn round let him go in peace."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn round** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Bugge |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | imperative | you *not said here* | Bugge |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **take away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the money |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | past | I | Bugge |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 5 | **not** **turn round** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | Bugge |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Bugge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | Bugge *not said here* |  |  | peace |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/61/)
- next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/63/)
- ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/)