--- title: "You had better not look at me in that way," said the soldier; "you… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "You had better not look at me in that way," said the soldier; "you will make your eyes water;" and then he seated him also upon the apron, and opened the chest. Who acts: You, soldier. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/) / 30 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 30 "You had better not look at me in that way," said the soldier; "you will make your eyes water;" and then he seated him also upon the apron, and opened the chest. **Who acts:** You, soldier · **What happens:** have, not look, say, make, seat, open · **To what, where:** way, eyes water, dog, chest · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:193:30 # text = "You had better not look at me in that way," said the soldier; "you will make your eyes water;" and then he seated him also upon the apron, and opened the chest. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 4 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 compound _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 upon upon ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 apron apron NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | | | that way | | at the soldier *= soldier*; well *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the soldier | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | future | you | your eyes water | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Product | | 5 | **seat** | past | soldier | dog | | | then | upon the apron | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value | | 6 | **open** | past | | the chest | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/31/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/)