--- title: Beware of bad people who will catch you, and skin you, and put you i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Beware of bad people who will catch you, and skin you, and put you in the frying-pan!" he repeated in his mind, and smiled, for he thought he should find his way through the world--good courage is a strong weapon! Who acts: you, bad people, sea, good courage. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bad people, sea, good courage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:161:9 # text = Beware of bad people who will catch you, and skin you, and put you in the frying-pan!" he repeated in his mind, and smiled, for he thought he should find his way through the world--good courage is a strong weapon! 1 Beware beware VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 frying frying NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 repeated repeat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 through through ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 -- -- PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 weapon weapon NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* | you | | | | of bad people | tree rules | | 2 | **catch** | future | bad people | you | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | you | | the frying pan | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in pan=Destination | | 4 | **repeat** *in a quote* | past | sea | | | sea's mind | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **smile** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | sea | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **find** *in a quote* | should | sea | sea's way | | the world | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | good courage | a strong weapon | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **mind** *in a quote* | | sea | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/10/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/)