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title: “Will you fly about here at liberty,” asked the Princess; “or would… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will you fly about here at liberty,” asked the Princess; “or would you like to have a fixed appointment as court ravens, with all the broken bits from the kitchen?” Who acts: you, Princess. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 115

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“Will you fly about here at liberty,” asked the Princess; “or would you like to have a fixed appointment as court ravens, with all the broken bits from the kitchen?”

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**Who acts:** you, Princess · **What happens:** fly, ask, like, have, fix, break · **To what, where:** liberty, fixed appointment · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess), 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:pg1597:13:115
# text = “Will you fly about here at liberty,” asked the Princess; “or would you like to have a fixed appointment as court ravens, with all the broken bits from the kitchen?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  | liberty; here |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at liberty=Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a fixed appointment |  |  |  | as court ravens | tree rules |
| 5 | **fix** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **break** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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