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description: I will bore a hole through thee, that everyone may know that thou art a false and worthless thing; and yet, why should I do that? Who acts: I, everyone. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 49

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I will bore a hole through thee, that everyone may know that thou art a false and worthless thing; and yet, why should I do that?

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**Who acts:** I, everyone · **What happens:** bore, know, do · **To what, where:** hole, thee, that

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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 (I, everyone), 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:pg27200:167:49
# text = I will bore a hole through thee, that everyone may know that thou art a false and worthless thing; and yet, why should I do that?
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bore	bore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bore** | future | I | a hole |  | thee | yet |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | may | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | should | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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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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