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title: "I have not sinned yet," said the prince, "and I will not;" and then… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I have not sinned yet," said the prince, "and I will not;" and then he pushed aside the boughs to follow the princess. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 235

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"I have not sinned yet," said the prince, "and I will not;" and then he pushed aside the boughs to follow the princess.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** not sin, say, push, follow · **To what, where:** boughs, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:140:235
# text = "I have not sinned yet," said the prince, "and I will not;" and then he pushed aside the boughs to follow the princess.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sin** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the prince *= prince* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **push** | past | prince | the boughs |  |  | then | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |

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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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