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title: To her foster-father she said one day, "If thine enemy were to pull… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: To her foster-father she said one day, "If thine enemy were to pull down thine house about thy ears, and thou shouldest be sleeping in unconscious security, I would not wake thee; even if I had the power I would never do it, for my ears still tingle with the blow that thou gavest me years ago. Who a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 19

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To her foster-father she said one day, "If thine enemy were to pull down thine house about thy ears, and thou shouldest be sleeping in unconscious security, I would not wake thee; even if I had the power I would never do it, for my ears still tingle with the blow that thou gavest me years ago.

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**Who acts:** child, enemy, thou · **What happens:** say, pull down, sleep, not wake, have, not do · **To what, where:** foster father, house, unconscious security, thee, power, blow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (child, enemy, thou), 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:pg27200:85:19
# text = To her foster-father she said one day, "If thine enemy were to pull down thine house about thy ears, and thou shouldest be sleeping in unconscious security, I would not wake thee; even if I had the power I would never do it, for my ears still tingle with the blow that thou gavest me years ago.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
27	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	unconscious	unconscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
38	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	parataxis	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
55	still	still	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	tingle	tingle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	obj	_	_
61	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	62	nsubj	_	_
62	gavest	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	acl:relcl	_	_
63	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	_
64	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl:unmarked	_	_
65	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | child |  | child's foster father |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pull down** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | thine enemy | thine house |  |  |  | about thy ears | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | should · progressive | thou |  |  | unconscious security |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in security=Location |
| 4 | **not** **wake** *in a quote* | would | child | thee |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | child | the power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | would | child | power |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 7 | **tingle** *in a quote* | present | child *not said here* |  |  |  | still | for my ears; with the blow | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **give** *in a quote* | past | thou | the blow |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient i=Theme |

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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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