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title: “Well then let the bird fly,” said the Princess; and she positively… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well then let the bird fly,” said the Princess; and she positively refused to see the Prince. Who acts: Princess, fly. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 28

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“Well then let the bird fly,” said the Princess; and she positively refused to see the Prince.

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**Who acts:** Princess, fly · **What happens:** let, say, refuse, not see · **To what, where:** bird fly, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, fly), 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:pg1597:3:28
# text = “Well then let the bird fly,” said the Princess; and she positively refused to see the Prince.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	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	12	det	_	_
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	positively	positively	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the bird fly |  |  | then | well *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **refuse** | past | fly |  |  |  |  | positively *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **see** | to-infinitive | fly *not said here* | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |

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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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