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title: These must be taken out, or he will never be a human being again, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These must be taken out, or he will never be a human being again, and the Snow Queen will retain her power over him." Who acts: Kay, Snow Queen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 22

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These must be taken out, or he will never be a human being again, and the Snow Queen will retain her power over him."

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**Who acts:** Kay, Snow Queen · **What happens:** take out, not be, retain · **To what, where:** These, power

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, Snow Queen), 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:pg27200:175:22
# text = These must be taken out, or he will never be a human being again, and the Snow Queen will retain her power over him."
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take out** | must · passive |  | These |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | future | Kay |  |  |  |  | again *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **retain** | future | the Snow Queen | Queen's power |  |  |  | over Kay | tree rules |

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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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