--- title: "Thanks to yourself also," replied the Metal Pig; "I have helped you… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Thanks to yourself also," replied the Metal Pig; "I have helped you and you have helped me, for it is only when I have an innocent child on my back that I receive the power to run. Who acts: Thanks, you, pig. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Metal Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/) / 41 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 41 "Thanks to yourself also," replied the Metal Pig; "I have helped you and you have helped me, for it is only when I have an innocent child on my back that I receive the power to run. **Who acts:** Thanks, you, pig · **What happens:** reply, help, be, receive, run · **To what, where:** Metal Pig, you, Thanks, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: who acts (Thanks, you, pig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:89:41 # text = "Thanks to yourself also," replied the Metal Pig; "I have helped you and you have helped me, for it is only when I have an innocent child on my back that I receive the power to run. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 nmod _ _ 5 also also ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Metal Metal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obj _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 receive receive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Thanks to yourself | the Metal Pig | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pig=Topic | | 2 | **help** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Thanks to yourself *= thanks* | | you | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 3 | **help** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | | Thanks to yourself *= thanks* | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | pig | | | | | have *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **receive** *in a quote* | present | Thanks to yourself *= thanks* | my back | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent that=Theme power=Location | | 6 | **run** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Thanks to yourself *= thanks* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/42/) - ↑ back to [The Metal Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/)