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title: Let my shell, the fresh young tree, wither, or be hewn down, and bur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my shell, the fresh young tree, wither, or be hewn down, and burnt to ashes, and scattered to all the winds!" Who acts: you, shell. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 79

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Let my shell, the fresh young tree, wither, or be hewn down, and burnt to ashes, and scattered to all the winds!"

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**Who acts:** you, shell · **What happens:** let, wither, hewn down, burnt, scatter · **To what, where:** shell

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shell), 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:pg27200:25:79
# text = Let my shell, the fresh young tree, wither, or be hewn down, and burnt to ashes, and scattered to all the winds!"
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wither	wither	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	hewn	hewn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my shell and the fresh young tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wither** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hewn down** | infinitive · passive | my shell and the fresh young tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burnt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to ashes | tree rules |
| 5 | **scatter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to all winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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