--- title: Then cut his head off; and mind you do not forget to bring his eyes… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then cut his head off; and mind you do not forget to bring his eyes with you to-morrow night, that I may eat them." Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/3/) [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 Travelling Companion, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/) / 3 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 3 Then cut his head off; and mind you do not forget to bring his eyes with you to-morrow night, that I may eat them." **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** cut off, not forget, bring, eat · **To what, where:** head, eyes This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. 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), 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:pg27200:198:3 # text = Then cut his head off; and mind you do not forget to bring his eyes with you to-morrow night, that I may eat them." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 advcl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut off** | past | | magician's head | | | then | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **forget** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | magician's eyes | | | night | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | may | I | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/4/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/)