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title: The woman took me home again with her, and looking at me very earnes… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman took me home again with her, and looking at me very earnestly, she said, 'No, I will not try to deceive any one with thee again. Who acts: woman, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 48

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The woman took me home again with her, and looking at me very earnestly, she said, 'No, I will not try to deceive any one with thee again.

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**Who acts:** woman, I · **What happens:** take, look, say, not try, deceive · **To what, where:** me, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I), 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:pg27200:167:48
# text = The woman took me home again with her, and looking at me very earnestly, she said, 'No, I will not try to deceive any one with thee again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obl	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the woman |  | me |  | again | with heart; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at me; earnestly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **try** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **deceive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | any one |  |  | again | with thee | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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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