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title: Yes, thou shalt remain as a token in the book, thou little snowdrop:… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, thou shalt remain as a token in the book, thou little snowdrop: thou hast been put there with a meaning." Who acts: thou. 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 80

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Yes, thou shalt remain as a token in the book, thou little snowdrop: thou hast been put there with a meaning."

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** remain, snowdrop, put · **To what, where:** thou

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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 (thou), 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:pg27200:177:80
# text = Yes, thou shalt remain as a token in the book, thou little snowdrop: thou hast been put there with a meaning."
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	snowdrop	snowdrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | as a token in the book and little snowdrop | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **snowdrop** |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | present · perfect · passive |  | thou |  | there |  | with a meaning | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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