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title: Now see; I will place them by the door; some one will take them inst… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now see; I will place them by the door; some one will take them instead of his own, and he will be the happy man." Who acts: you, I, one, messenger. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 20

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Now see; I will place them by the door; some one will take them instead of his own, and he will be the happy man."

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**Who acts:** you, I, one, messenger · **What happens:** see, place, take, be · **To what, where:** goloshes, happy man

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, one, messenger), 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:pg27200:40:20
# text = Now see; I will place them by the door; some one will take them instead of his own, and he will be the happy man."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | by the door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **place** | future | I | goloshes *= golosh* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | future | some one | goloshes *= golosh* |  |  |  | instead messenger's own | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | future | messenger | the happy man |  |  |  |  | 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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