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title: What One Can Invent The Wicked Prince The Wild Swans The Will-o-the-… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What One Can Invent The Wicked Prince The Wild Swans The Will-o-the-Wisp in the Town, Says the Wild Woman The Story of the Wind The Windmill Who acts: One, Wicked Prince. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, sentence 21

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What One Can Invent The Wicked Prince The Wild Swans The Will-o-the-Wisp in the Town, Says the Wild Woman The Story of the Wind The Windmill

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**Who acts:** One, Wicked Prince · **What happens:** invent, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Wicked Prince), 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:pg27200:1:21
# text = What One Can Invent The Wicked Prince The Wild Swans The Will-o-the-Wisp in the Town, Says the Wild Woman The Story of the Wind The Windmill
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	Invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Swans	Swan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
12	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Wisp	Wisp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	Says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Windmill	Windmill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | can | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Wicked Prince and the Wild Swans of the Wisp in the Town |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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