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title: Give me a little more, and you may have a sip too, but only a sip; y… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Give me a little more, and you may have a sip too, but only a sip; you must not get used to it, my poor, dear child." Who acts: you. 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 34

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Give me a little more, and you may have a sip too, but only a sip; you must not get used to it, my poor, dear child."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, have, not use · **To what, where:** more, me, sip, you

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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), 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:pg27200:46:34
# text = Give me a little more, and you may have a sip too, but only a sip; you must not get used to it, my poor, dear child."
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sip	sip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sip	sip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | more | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | may | you | a sip |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sip=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **use** | must · passive |  | you | sip |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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