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title: “And then?” asked the Fir Tree, trembling in every bough. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “And then?” asked the Fir Tree, trembling in every bough. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 44

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“And then?” asked the Fir Tree, trembling in every bough.

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**What happens:** ask, tremble · **To what, where:** Fir Tree, bough

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. 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:pg1597:10:44
# text = “And then?” asked the Fir Tree, trembling in every bough.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Fir	Fir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the Fir Tree |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  | every bough |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bough=Location |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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