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title: Go to the ant and learn wisdom,' said the great Jewish king. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Go to the ant and learn wisdom,' said the great Jewish king. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 17

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Go to the ant and learn wisdom,' said the great Jewish king.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go, learn, say · **To what, where:** ant, wisdom, great Jewish king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:180:17
# text = Go to the ant and learn wisdom,' said the great Jewish king.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the ant |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ant=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **learn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the great Jewish king |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |

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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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