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title: “But there we shall not meet,” said the King's Son, nodding at the s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But there we shall not meet,” said the King's Son, nodding at the same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest, thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble dress, and scratched his face and hands and feet till they bled. Who acts: we, poor boy, thorns. A sentence of «Andersen's 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 45

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“But there we shall not meet,” said the King's Son, nodding at the same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest, thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble dress, and scratched his face and hands and feet till they bled.

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**Who acts:** we, poor boy, thorns · **What happens:** not meet, say, nod, go, tore, scratch · **To what, where:** poor boy, darkest thickest part, humble dress, face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, poor boy, thorns), 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:pg1597:18:45
# text = “But there we shall not meet,” said the King's Son, nodding at the same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest, thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble dress, and scratched his face and hands and feet till they bled.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	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	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	nodding	nod	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	darkest	dark	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
39	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
53	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	bled	bleed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  | there |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **nod** | gerund |  |  | the poor boy |  | time |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient |
| 4 | **go** | past | the poor boy |  |  | the darkest thickest part of the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into part=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **tore** | past | thorns | son's humble dress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **scratch** | past |  | son's face and hands and feet |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 7 | **bleed** | past | thorns *= thorn* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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