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description: I will prepare a draught for you, with which you must swim to land tomorrow before sunrise, and sit down on the shore and drink it. Who acts: I, you. 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 e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 9

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I will prepare a draught for you, with which you must swim to land tomorrow before sunrise, and sit down on the shore and drink it.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** prepare, swim, land, sit down, drink · **To what, where:** draught, shore

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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 (I, 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:pg27200:77:9
# text = I will prepare a draught for you, with which you must swim to land tomorrow before sunrise, and sit down on the shore and drink it.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | future | I | a draught |  |  |  | for you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent draught=Product for you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **swim** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **land** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | sunrise; tomorrow |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit down** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
| 5 | **drink** | infinitive | I *not said here* | draught |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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