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title: "Now you must work for us," said his foster-mother; and Rudy very so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now you must work for us," said his foster-mother; and Rudy very soon became the entire support of the house. Who acts: you, foster mother, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 61

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"Now you must work for us," said his foster-mother; and Rudy very soon became the entire support of the house.

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**Who acts:** you, foster mother, Rudy · **What happens:** work, say, become, support · **To what, where:** entire support, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, foster mother, Rudy), 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:pg27200:54:61
# text = "Now you must work for us," said his foster-mother; and Rudy very soon became the entire support of the house.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  | now | for us | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rudy's foster mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **become** | past | Rudy | the entire support of the house |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **support** |  |  | the house |  |  |  |  | nom support «act transitive»: of=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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