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title: Soon wild animals would come and tear their dead bodies; but no, tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon wild animals would come and tear their dead bodies; but no, that must not happen. Who acts: wild animals, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 57

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Soon wild animals would come and tear their dead bodies; but no, that must not happen.

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**Who acts:** wild animals, that · **What happens:** come, tear, not happen · **To what, where:** dead bodies

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild animals, that), 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:pg27200:86:57
# text = Soon wild animals would come and tear their dead bodies; but no, that must not happen.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | wild animals |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tear** | infinitive | wild animals *not said here* | hands's dead bodies |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location body=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **happen** | must | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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