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title: “I will go into the carriage,” said the little robber maiden; and sh… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will go into the carriage,” said the little robber maiden; and she would have her will, for she was very spoiled and very headstrong. Who acts: little robber maiden, child. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 12

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“I will go into the carriage,” said the little robber maiden; and she would have her will, for she was very spoiled and very headstrong.

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**Who acts:** little robber maiden, child · **What happens:** go, say, have, be · **To what, where:** carriage · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little robber maiden, child), 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:pg1597:14:12
# text = “I will go into the carriage,” said the little robber maiden; and she would have her will, for she was very spoiled and very headstrong.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	spoiled	spoiled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	headstrong	headstrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | future | the little robber maiden *= maiden* |  |  | the carriage |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into carriage=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little robber maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | would · future | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | child |  |  |  |  | spoiled *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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