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title: You can then open the chest, and take from it as many pence as you p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You can then open the chest, and take from it as many pence as you please, they are only copper pence; but if you would rather have silver money, you must go into the second chamber. Who acts: You, pence. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 13

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You can then open the chest, and take from it as many pence as you please, they are only copper pence; but if you would rather have silver money, you must go into the second chamber.

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**Who acts:** You, pence · **What happens:** open, take, be, have, go · **To what, where:** chest, many pence, copper pence, silver money, second chamber

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, pence), 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:pg27200:193:13
# text = You can then open the chest, and take from it as many pence as you please, they are only copper pence; but if you would rather have silver money, you must go into the second chamber.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
17	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	pence	pence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
31	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	40	amod	_	_
40	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | can | You | the chest |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | You *not said here* | many pence |  | chest |  | as you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pence=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | pence | copper pence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | silver money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | must | you |  |  | the second chamber |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial\_Location |

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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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