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title: But lo! the servant of one of the robbers secretly approached her; t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But lo! the servant of one of the robbers secretly approached her; they must not see it, otherwise they would have killed him. Who acts: servant, robbers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 8

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But lo! the servant of one of the robbers secretly approached her; they must not see it, otherwise they would have killed him.

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**Who acts:** servant, robbers · **What happens:** approach, not see, kill · **To what, where:** Mrs., servant, robbers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, robbers), 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:pg27200:22:8
# text = But lo! the servant of one of the robbers secretly approached her; they must not see it, otherwise they would have killed him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | the servant of one of the robbers | Mrs. |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | must | robbers *= robber* | servant |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **kill** | would · perfect · passive |  | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |

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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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