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title: A Little Boy and a Little Girl — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A Little Boy and a Little Girl A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 23

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A Little Boy and a Little Girl

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. 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:pg1597:11:23
# text = A Little Boy and a Little Girl
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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