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title: Your tail will then disappear, and shrink up into what mankind calls… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Your tail will then disappear, and shrink up into what mankind calls legs, and you will feel great pain, as if a sword were passing through you. Who acts: tail, mankind, you, sword. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 10

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Your tail will then disappear, and shrink up into what mankind calls legs, and you will feel great pain, as if a sword were passing through you.

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**Who acts:** tail, mankind, you, sword · **What happens:** disappear, shrink up, call, feel, pass · **To what, where:** legs, great pain · **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 Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, mankind, you, sword), 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:pg27200:77:10
# text = Your tail will then disappear, and shrink up into what mankind calls legs, and you will feel great pain, as if a sword were passing through you.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shrink	shrink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
12	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | future | Your tail |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shrink up** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into what=Result |
| 3 | **call** | present | mankind | legs |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leg=Recipient |
| 4 | **feel** | future | you | great pain |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | past · progressive | a sword |  |  |  |  | through you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through you=Location |

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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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