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title: "Open the sack," cried Little Claus; "creep into it instead of me, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Open the sack," cried Little Claus; "creep into it instead of me, and you will soon be there." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 168

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"Open the sack," cried Little Claus; "creep into it instead of me, and you will soon be there."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** open, cry, creep, be · **To what, where:** sack, Little, drover · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:71:168
# text = "Open the sack," cried Little Claus; "creep into it instead of me, and you will soon be there."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	creep	creep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* | Little |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **creep** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | drover |  | instead Great Claus *= claus* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | soon, there *property* | tree rules |

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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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