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title: "Have you any milk in the house?" he asked; "if so, give me some to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Have you any milk in the house?" he asked; "if so, give me some to drink; my thirst is intolerable." Who acts: you, Rudy, thirst, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 31

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"Have you any milk in the house?" he asked; "if so, give me some to drink; my thirst is intolerable."

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**Who acts:** you, Rudy, thirst, my · **What happens:** have, ask, give, drink, be, thirst · **To what, where:** milk, house, some, Rudy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Rudy, thirst, my), 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:pg27200:63:31
# text = "Have you any milk in the house?" he asked; "if so, give me some to drink; my thirst is intolerable."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | any milk |  | the house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some | Rudy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my thirst |  |  |  |  | intolerable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **thirst** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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