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title: Don't imagine such nonsense, child, and thank your good fortune that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Don't imagine such nonsense, child, and thank your good fortune that you have been received here. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 117

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Don't imagine such nonsense, child, and thank your good fortune that you have been received here.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not imagine, thank, receive · **To what, where:** such nonsense, good fortune, you

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:201:117
# text = Don't imagine such nonsense, child, and thank your good fortune that you have been received here.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **imagine** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | such nonsense and child |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nonsense=Theme |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | you *not said here* | your good fortune |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  | here |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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