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title: Thou juicy, green, poisonous hemlock, throw thy shadow over Athens--… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou juicy, green, poisonous hemlock, throw thy shadow over Athens--not thou, olive tree of fame! Who acts: thy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 12

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Thou juicy, green, poisonous hemlock, throw thy shadow over Athens--not thou, olive tree of fame!

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**Who acts:** thy · **What happens:** throw, shadow · **To what, where:** shadow, Athens

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thy), 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:pg27200:190:12
# text = Thou juicy, green, poisonous hemlock, throw thy shadow over Athens--not thou, olive tree of fame!
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
2	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	olive	olive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | infinitive |  | thy shadow |  | Athens |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme over athens=Destination |
| 2 | **shadow** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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