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title: But you have not forgotten the good boy who said it was a shame to l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But you have not forgotten the good boy who said it was a shame to laugh at animals: we will take him a little brother and sister too, because he was good. Who acts: you, good boy, we, review. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 94

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But you have not forgotten the good boy who said it was a shame to laugh at animals: we will take him a little brother and sister too, because he was good.

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**Who acts:** you, good boy, we, review · **What happens:** not forget, say, be, laugh, take · **To what, where:** good boy, shame, little brother, review · **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, good boy, we, review), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:12575`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:183:94
# text = But you have not forgotten the good boy who said it was a shame to laugh at animals: we will take him a little brother and sister too, because he was good.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **forget** | present · perfect | you | the good boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the good boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a shame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at animals | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | future | we | a little brother and sister | review |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme brother=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | past | review |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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