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title: “I will just give them a coating of white, for that is as it ought t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will just give them a coating of white, for that is as it ought to be; besides, it is good for the oranges and the grapes.” Who acts: Snow Queen, coating. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 28

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“I will just give them a coating of white, for that is as it ought to be; besides, it is good for the oranges and the grapes.”

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**Who acts:** Snow Queen, coating · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** coating, besides

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow Queen, coating), 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:pg1597:15:28
# text = “I will just give them a coating of white, for that is as it ought to be; besides, it is good for the oranges and the grapes.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coating	coating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
21	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the Snow Queen *= queen* | a coating of white | besides |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Snow Queen *= queen* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | coating |  |  |  |  | for the oranges and the grapes; good *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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