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title: "Be kind enough to seat yourself on that cupboard," she retorted, "b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Be kind enough to seat yourself on that cupboard," she retorted, "but take care you don't fall through and break the bottles--you know what's inside of them. Who acts: you, Pray. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the M
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 161

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"Be kind enough to seat yourself on that cupboard," she retorted, "but take care you don't fall through and break the bottles--you know what's inside of them.

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**Who acts:** you, Pray · **What happens:** be, retort, take, not fall through, break, know · **To what, where:** care, bottles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pray), 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:pg27200:211:161
# text = "Be kind enough to seat yourself on that cupboard," she retorted, "but take care you don't fall through and break the bottles--you know what's inside of them.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	retorted	retort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
24	through	through	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **retort** *speech: other* | past | Pray |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | Pray *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **fall through** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **break** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the bottles |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Patient |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | inside care | tree rules |

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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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