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title: Sit you down now under the green bindwood and pay attention, when Ph… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sit you down now under the green bindwood and pay attention, when Phantaesus comes I will find an opportunity to lay hold of his wing and to pull out one of the little feathers. Who acts: you, Phantaesus, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mo
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 51

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Sit you down now under the green bindwood and pay attention, when Phantaesus comes I will find an opportunity to lay hold of his wing and to pull out one of the little feathers.

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**Who acts:** you, Phantaesus, I · **What happens:** sit down, pay, come, find, lay, pull out · **To what, where:** you, green bindwood, attention, opportunity, hold, one

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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, Phantaesus, I), 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:pg27200:180:51
# text = Sit you down now under the green bindwood and pay attention, when Phantaesus comes I will find an opportunity to lay hold of his wing and to pull out one of the little feathers.
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bindwood	bindwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	Phantaesus	Phantaesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  | the green bindwood | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | attention |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 3 | **come** | present | Phantaesus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | future | I | a opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic |
| 5 | **lay** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | hold of Phantaesus's wing |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 6 | **pull out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | one of the little feathers |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hold** |  |  | Phantaesus's wing |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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