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title: “What you relate may be very pretty, but you tell it in so melanchol… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “What you relate may be very pretty, but you tell it in so melancholy a manner, and do not mention Kay.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 100

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“What you relate may be very pretty, but you tell it in so melancholy a manner, and do not mention Kay.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** relate, be, tell, not mention · **To what, where:** manner, swing, melancholy, Kay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg1597:12:100
# text = “What you relate may be very pretty, but you tell it in so melancholy a manner, and do not mention Kay.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	relate	relate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | may |  |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | a manner | swing | melancholy |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient manner=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | Kay |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kay=Topic |

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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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