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title: To-night as soon as you hear a rattling in the old cupboard, you sha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: To-night as soon as you hear a rattling in the old cupboard, you shall be married, as true as I am a Chinaman;" and then he nodded his head and fell asleep. Who acts: you, I, husband. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 23

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To-night as soon as you hear a rattling in the old cupboard, you shall be married, as true as I am a Chinaman;" and then he nodded his head and fell asleep.

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**Who acts:** you, I, husband · **What happens:** hear, marry, be, nod, fall · **To what, where:** rattling, old cupboard, you, head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, husband), 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:pg27200:166:23
# text = To-night as soon as you hear a rattling in the old cupboard, you shall be married, as true as I am a Chinaman;" and then he nodded his head and fell asleep.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rattling	rattling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | you | a rattling |  | the old cupboard |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rattling=Stimulus |
| 2 | **marry** | shall · passive |  | you |  |  | night |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as a Chinaman | tree rules |
| 4 | **nod** *in a quote* | past | husband | husband's head |  |  | then |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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