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title: If you get on badly there, the general will thrust his beak through… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If you get on badly there, the general will thrust his beak through you, and you will be killed, as the boys said, though not exactly in the same manner. Who acts: you, general, boys. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 76

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If you get on badly there, the general will thrust his beak through you, and you will be killed, as the boys said, though not exactly in the same manner.

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**Who acts:** you, general, boys · **What happens:** get on, thrust, kill, say · **To what, where:** beak, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, general, boys), 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:pg27200:183:76
# text = If you get on badly there, the general will thrust his beak through you, and you will be killed, as the boys said, though not exactly in the same manner.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
30	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **get on** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **thrust** | future | the general | general's beak |  |  |  | through you | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | future · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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