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title: "Thank-you," said the mother-snail; "but our boy shall not go to liv… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thank-you," said the mother-snail; "but our boy shall not go to live in an ant-hill. Who acts: mother snail, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 40

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"Thank-you," said the mother-snail; "but our boy shall not go to live in an ant-hill.

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**Who acts:** mother snail, boy · **What happens:** thank, say, not go, live · **To what, where:** you, ant hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother snail, boy), 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:pg27200:48:40
# text = "Thank-you," said the mother-snail; "but our boy shall not go to live in an ant-hill.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother snail |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | shall | our boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | our boy *not said here* |  |  | a ant hill |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location |

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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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