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title: "I believe you," said the mother; "if one takes two cups of hot elde… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I believe you," said the mother; "if one takes two cups of hot elder-tea it is quite natural that one gets into warm countries!" Who acts: mother, one, cup. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 127

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"I believe you," said the mother; "if one takes two cups of hot elder-tea it is quite natural that one gets into warm countries!"

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**Who acts:** mother, one, cup · **What happens:** believe, say, take, be, get · **To what, where:** you, two cups, warm countries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, one, cup), 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:pg27200:72:127
# text = "I believe you," said the mother; "if one takes two cups of hot elder-tea it is quite natural that one gets into warm countries!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *in a quote* | present | the mother *= mother* | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | one | two cups of hot elder tea |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | cup |  |  |  |  | natural *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | present | one |  |  | warm countries |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into country=Destination |

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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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