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title: "Ah, yes; and break your neck," said the miller; "and you look like… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ah, yes; and break your neck," said the miller; "and you look like one who will break his neck some day, you are so daring." Who acts: you, miller, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 151

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"Ah, yes; and break your neck," said the miller; "and you look like one who will break his neck some day, you are so daring."

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**Who acts:** you, miller, one · **What happens:** break, say, look, dare · **To what, where:** neck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, miller, one), 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:pg27200:55:151
# text = "Ah, yes; and break your neck," said the miller; "and you look like one who will break his neck some day, you are so daring."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	daring	dare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your neck |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the miller |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **break** *in a quote* | future | one | man's neck |  |  | day |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |
| 5 | **dare** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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