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title: “That I don't believe,” said they: and at last little Gerda did not… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “That I don't believe,” said they: and at last little Gerda did not think so any longer either. Who acts: That, Swallows. 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 13

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“That I don't believe,” said they: and at last little Gerda did not think so any longer either.

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**Who acts:** That, Swallows · **What happens:** not believe, say, not think · **To what, where:** last little Gerda · **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 (That, Swallows), 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:pg1597:12:13
# text = “That I don't believe,” said they: and at last little Gerda did not think so any longer either.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	any	any	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
23	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Swallows *= swallow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Swallows *= swallow* *not said here* |  |  | last little Gerda |  | long *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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