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title: It is stupid nonsense to allow yourself to shoot out in this way; we… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is stupid nonsense to allow yourself to shoot out in this way; we are not here to support you." Who acts: leaf, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 8

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It is stupid nonsense to allow yourself to shoot out in this way; we are not here to support you."

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**Who acts:** leaf, we · **What happens:** be, allow, shoot out, not be, support · **To what, where:** stupid nonsense, yourself, way, you

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, we), 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:pg27200:49:8
# text = It is stupid nonsense to allow yourself to shoot out in this way; we are not here to support you."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	iobj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	support	support	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | leaf | stupid nonsense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | to-infinitive |  |  | yourself |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer yourself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shoot out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | this way |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in way=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **support** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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