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title: "Well, then I would certainly take Martin, for that is what my heart… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, then I would certainly take Martin, for that is what my heart tells me; but one cannot live upon love." Who acts: thought, that, heart, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 100

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"Well, then I would certainly take Martin, for that is what my heart tells me; but one cannot live upon love."

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**Who acts:** thought, that, heart, one · **What happens:** take, be, tell, not live · **To what, where:** Martin, thought, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, that, heart, one), 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:pg27200:160:100
# text = "Well, then I would certainly take Martin, for that is what my heart tells me; but one cannot live upon love."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obl	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | would | thought |  | Martin |  | then | certainly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument martin=Destination |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | my heart |  | thought |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **live** *in a quote* | can | one |  |  | love |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon love=Location |

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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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