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title: Drink a little, my boy; you look quite pale; you are shivering in yo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Drink a little, my boy; you look quite pale; you are shivering in your thin clothes, and autumn has really come. Who acts: you, autumn. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 30

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Drink a little, my boy; you look quite pale; you are shivering in your thin clothes, and autumn has really come.

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**Who acts:** you, autumn · **What happens:** drink, look, shiver, come · **To what, where:** little, thin clothes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, autumn), 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:pg27200:46:30
# text = Drink a little, my boy; you look quite pale; you are shivering in your thin clothes, and autumn has really come.
1	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	shivering	shiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | a little |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | present | you |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shiver** | present · progressive | you |  |  | your thin clothes |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | present | autumn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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