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title: "That I may not tell you," said Death; "but thus far you may learn,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "That I may not tell you," said Death; "but thus far you may learn, that one of the two flowers represents your own child. Who acts: Death, you, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 95

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"That I may not tell you," said Death; "but thus far you may learn, that one of the two flowers represents your own child.

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**Who acts:** Death, you, one · **What happens:** not tell, say, learn, represent · **To what, where:** That, you, own child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, you, one), 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:pg27200:185:95
# text = "That I may not tell you," said Death; "but thus far you may learn, that one of the two flowers represents your own child.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | may | Death | That | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Death |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **learn** *in a quote* | may | you |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **represent** *in a quote* | present | that one of the two flowers | your own child |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=Theme |

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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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