---
title: However, you shall not be frozen for the want of it; here are my mot… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: However, you shall not be frozen for the want of it; here are my mother's large warm mittens; they will reach up to your elbows. Who acts: large warm mittens, mittens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragm
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/69/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 69

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 69

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
However, you shall not be frozen for the want of it; here are my mother's large warm mittens; they will reach up to your elbows.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** large warm mittens, mittens · **What happens:** not freeze, be, reach up, want · **To what, where:** you, reindeer

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (large warm mittens, mittens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:174:69
# text = However, you shall not be frozen for the want of it; here are my mother's large warm mittens; they will reach up to your elbows.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mittens	mitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **freeze** | shall · passive |  | you |  |  |  | for the want of reindeer; however *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | my mother's large warm mittens |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach up** | future | mittens *= mitten* |  |  |  |  | to your elbows | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** |  |  | reindeer |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/68/)
- next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/70/)
- ↑ back to [Little Robber-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/)