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title: Put out your little tongue that I may cut it off as my payment; then… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Put out your little tongue that I may cut it off as my payment; then you shall have the powerful draught." Who acts: you, little tongue, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 25

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Put out your little tongue that I may cut it off as my payment; then you shall have the powerful draught."

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**Who acts:** you, little tongue, my · **What happens:** put out, cut off, have, pay · **To what, where:** little tongue, tongue, powerful draught

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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 (you, little tongue, 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:pg27200:77:25
# text = Put out your little tongue that I may cut it off as my payment; then you shall have the powerful draught."
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | imperative | you *not said here* | your little tongue |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tongue=Goal |
| 2 | **cut off** | may | your little tongue | tongue |  |  |  | as my payment | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | shall | you | the powerful draught |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient |
| 4 | **pay** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom payment «possession transitive»: 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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