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title: Ah, I have cured him of staring, though; now he may hang up there, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, I have cured him of staring, though; now he may hang up there, and shine, that I may see myself. Who acts: I, Man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 11

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Ah, I have cured him of staring, though; now he may hang up there, and shine, that I may see myself.

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**Who acts:** I, Man · **What happens:** cure, stare, hang up, see · **To what, where:** Man, shine, myself

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Man), 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:pg27200:169:11
# text = Ah, I have cured him of staring, though; now he may hang up there, and shine, that I may see myself.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	though	though	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | present · perfect | I | Man |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | though *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hang up** | may | Man | shine |  | there | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | may | I | myself |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus |

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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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