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title: Tell him I will give him ten kisses, as I did the other day; the rem… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell him I will give him ten kisses, as I did the other day; the remainder one of my ladies can give him. Who acts: you, I, remainder. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 69

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Tell him I will give him ten kisses, as I did the other day; the remainder one of my ladies can give him.

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**Who acts:** you, I, remainder · **What happens:** tell, give, do · **To what, where:** emperor, ten kisses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, remainder), 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:pg27200:188:69
# text = Tell him I will give him ten kisses, as I did the other day; the remainder one of my ladies can give him.
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	remainder	remainder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | emperor |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | future | I | ten kisses | emperor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | can | the remainder |  | emperor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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