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title: "Will you have that knife with you while you are asleep?" asked Gerd… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Will you have that knife with you while you are asleep?" asked Gerda, looking at it in great fright. Who acts: Gerda. 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.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 36

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"Will you have that knife with you while you are asleep?" asked Gerda, looking at it in great fright.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** have, be, ask, look · **To what, where:** knife, Gerda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gerda), 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:pg27200:174:36
# text = "Will you have that knife with you while you are asleep?" asked Gerda, looking at it in great fright.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | future | Gerda | that knife |  |  |  | with Gerda | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Gerda |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Gerda |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in great fright; at knife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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