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title: Poor little delicate thing, with those rough policemen! and she'll b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor little delicate thing, with those rough policemen! and she'll be frozen with cold." A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 156

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Poor little delicate thing, with those rough policemen! and she'll be frozen with cold."

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**What happens:** freeze · **To what, where:** Bellissima

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:89:156
# text = Poor little delicate thing, with those rough policemen! and she'll be frozen with cold."
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	policemen	policeman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | future · passive |  | Bellissima |  |  |  | with cold | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with cold=Instrument |

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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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