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title: Will the mouse-king be pleased now to dip his tail into the boiling… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Will the mouse-king be pleased now to dip his tail into the boiling water, and stir it round with the tail. Who acts: mouse king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 9

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Will the mouse-king be pleased now to dip his tail into the boiling water, and stir it round with the tail.

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**Who acts:** mouse king · **What happens:** be, dip, boil, stir · **To what, where:** tail, boiling water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse king), 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:pg27200:182:9
# text = Will the mouse-king be pleased now to dip his tail into the boiling water, and stir it round with the tail.
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	dip	dip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stir	stir	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	round	round	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | future | the mouse king |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dip** | to-infinitive |  | king's tail |  | the boiling water | now |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme into water=Destination |
| 3 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **stir** | infinitive |  | tail |  |  |  | with the tail; round *property* | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tail=Co-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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