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title: You must take pains to grow, for it is not every one who has sealing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You must take pains to grow, for it is not every one who has sealing-wax dropped upon him;" and as she spoke, the darning-needle drew herself up so proudly that she fell out of the handkerchief right into the sink, which the cook was cleaning. " Who acts: You, appearance, one, sealing wax. A sentenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 14

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You must take pains to grow, for it is not every one who has sealing-wax dropped upon him;" and as she spoke, the darning-needle drew herself up so proudly that she fell out of the handkerchief right into the sink, which the cook was cleaning. "

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**Who acts:** You, appearance, one, sealing wax, wax, darning needle · **What happens:** take, grow, not be, have, drop, speak · **To what, where:** pains, needle, handkerchief, sink · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, appearance, one, sealing wax), 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:pg27200:21:14
# text = You must take pains to grow, for it is not every one who has sealing-wax dropped upon him;" and as she spoke, the darning-needle drew herself up so proudly that she fell out of the handkerchief right into the sink, which the cook was cleaning. "
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	sealing	sealing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	darning	darning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	right	right	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	obj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | must | You | pains |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | pains *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | appearance |  |  |  |  | for every one | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drop** | past | sealing wax |  |  |  |  | upon pin | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | wax |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **draw up** *in a quote* | past | the darning needle | needle |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 8 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | needle |  |  | the handkerchief |  | into the sink | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out handkerchief=Initial\_Location into sink=Destination |
| 9 | **clean** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the cook | the sink |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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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