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title: “If I had but married the handsome young Prince! — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If I had but married the handsome young Prince! Who acts: March. 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 92

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“If I had but married the handsome young Prince!

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**Who acts:** March · **What happens:** have, marry · **To what, where:** handsome young Prince

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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 (March), 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:pg1597:3:92
# text = “If I had but married the handsome young Prince!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | March |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **marry** *in a quote* | past | March *not said here* | the handsome young Prince |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |

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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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