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title: I shall have to fetch beer and spirits for the journeymen, and they… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall have to fetch beer and spirits for the journeymen, and they will call me 'thou,' which will be an insult. Who acts: I, beer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 100

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I shall have to fetch beer and spirits for the journeymen, and they will call me 'thou,' which will be an insult.

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**Who acts:** I, beer · **What happens:** have, fetch, call, be · **To what, where:** beer, me, insult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beer), 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:pg27200:177:100
# text = I shall have to fetch beer and spirits for the journeymen, and they will call me 'thou,' which will be an insult.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | beer and spirits |  |  |  | for the journeymen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent beer=Theme for journeyman=Source |
| 3 | **call** | future | beer | me |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme thou=Result |
| 4 | **is a** | future |  | a insult |  |  |  |  | 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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