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title: Ask your own heart, Christina, and think over carefully what awaits… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask your own heart, Christina, and think over carefully what awaits you if you take me for your husband, for I possess very little in the world. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 133

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Ask your own heart, Christina, and think over carefully what awaits you if you take me for your husband, for I possess very little in the world.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** ask, think over, await, take, possess · **To what, where:** own heart, you, me, little, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. 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), 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:pg27200:51:133
# text = Ask your own heart, Christina, and think over carefully what awaits you if you take me for your husband, for I possess very little in the world.
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
13	awaits	await	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | your own heart |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent heart=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **think over** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **await** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | me |  |  |  | for your husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for husband=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **possess** | present | I | little |  | the world |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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