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title: That song is not without its meaning,' said she, and so then she was… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That song is not without its meaning,' said she, and so then she was determined to marry; but she would have a husband who knew how to give an answer when he was spoken to--not one who looked only as if he were a great personage, for that is so tiresome. Who acts: song, Princess, husband, one. A sen
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 31

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That song is not without its meaning,' said she, and so then she was determined to marry; but she would have a husband who knew how to give an answer when he was spoken to--not one who looked only as if he were a great personage, for that is so tiresome.

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**Who acts:** song, Princess, husband, one, that · **What happens:** not be, say, be, marry, have, know · **To what, where:** husband, answer, great personage · **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 (song, Princess, husband, one), 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:pg1597:13:31
# text = That song is not without its meaning,' said she, and so then she was determined to marry; but she would have a husband who knew how to give an answer when he was spoken to--not one who looked only as if he were a great personage, for that is so tiresome.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nsubj	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
45	only	only	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
47	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	nsubj	_	_
56	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
57	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | that song |  |  |  |  | without song's meaning | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  |  | then | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | would | Princess | a husband |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
| 6 | **know** | past | a husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | a answer |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | husband |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **look** | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 10 | **is a** | past | husband | a great personage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | tiresome *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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