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title: “No matter,” said the Raven; “I will tell you as well as I can; howe… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “No matter,” said the Raven; “I will tell you as well as I can; however, it will be bad enough.” Who acts: matter. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 27

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“No matter,” said the Raven; “I will tell you as well as I can; however, it will be bad enough.”

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**Who acts:** matter · **What happens:** say, tell, be · **To what, where:** Raven, you · **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 (matter), 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:pg1597:13:27
# text = “No matter,” said the Raven; “I will tell you as well as I can; however, it will be bad enough.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	however	however	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | no matter | the Raven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | no matter *= matter* |  | you |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | matter |  |  |  |  | bad, enough, however *property* | tree rules |

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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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