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title: "Give me one hair--only one single hair--from the head of the sinner… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Give me one hair--only one single hair--from the head of the sinner for whom the fire shall never be extinguished, of the sinner whom God will condemn to eternal punishment in hell." Who acts: you, God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 38

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"Give me one hair--only one single hair--from the head of the sinner for whom the fire shall never be extinguished, of the sinner whom God will condemn to eternal punishment in hell."

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**Who acts:** you, God · **What happens:** give, not extinguish, condemn · **To what, where:** one hair, dead woman, fire, sinner, hell

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, God), 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:pg27200:2:38
# text = "Give me one hair--only one single hair--from the head of the sinner for whom the fire shall never be extinguished, of the sinner whom God will condemn to eternal punishment in hell."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
30	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	condemn	condemn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | one hair | the dead woman *= woman* |  |  | one single hair *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **extinguish** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **condemn** *in a quote* | future | God | the sinner |  | hell |  | to eternal punishment | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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