--- title: "They shall not kill you as long as you don't make us vexed with you. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "They shall not kill you as long as you don't make us vexed with you. Who acts: eyes, you, us. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Little Robber-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/) / 14 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 14 "They shall not kill you as long as you don't make us vexed with you. **Who acts:** eyes, you, us · **What happens:** not kill, not make, not vex · **To what, where:** you, us This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, you, us), 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:pg27200:174:14 # text = "They shall not kill you as long as you don't make us vexed with you. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 vexed vex VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **kill** *in a quote* | shall | eyes *= eye* | you | | | | long *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | us | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **vex** *in a quote* | participle | us *not said here* | | | | | with you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/15/) - ↑ back to [Little Robber-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/)