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title: Kill the prince and come back; hasten: do you not see the first red… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Kill the prince and come back; hasten: do you not see the first red streaks in the sky? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 29

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Kill the prince and come back; hasten: do you not see the first red streaks in the sky?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** kill, come back, hasten, not see · **To what, where:** prince, first red streaks, sky

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. 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:pg27200:78:29
# text = Kill the prince and come back; hasten: do you not see the first red streaks in the sky?
1	Kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	streaks	streak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | imperative | you *not said here* | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hasten** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | you | the first red streaks |  | the sky |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer streak=Stimulus |

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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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