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title: Don't be thinking too much of yourself, or you may chance to run aga… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Don't be thinking too much of yourself, or you may chance to run against a stone. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 24

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Don't be thinking too much of yourself, or you may chance to run against a stone.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, not think, chance, run · **To what, where:** much, stone

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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), 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:pg27200:21:24
# text = Don't be thinking too much of yourself, or you may chance to run against a stone.
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | infinitive · progressive | you *not said here* | much of yourself |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 3 | **chance** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a stone |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stone=Trajectory |

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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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