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title: "No, you must not spend a dollar for your daughter's bridal bouquet,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, you must not spend a dollar for your daughter's bridal bouquet," said the old maid; "you shall have a beautiful little bunch for a nosegay, full of blossoms. Who acts: you, old maid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 148

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"No, you must not spend a dollar for your daughter's bridal bouquet," said the old maid; "you shall have a beautiful little bunch for a nosegay, full of blossoms.

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**Who acts:** you, old maid · **What happens:** not spend, say, have · **To what, where:** dollar, beautiful little bunch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old maid), 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:pg27200:13:148
# text = "No, you must not spend a dollar for your daughter's bridal bouquet," said the old maid; "you shall have a beautiful little bunch for a nosegay, full of blossoms.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spend** *in a quote* | must | you | a dollar |  |  |  | for your daughter's bridal bouquet | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset for bouquet=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | a beautiful little bunch |  |  |  | for a nosegay | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=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:** «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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