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title: "It may be all very pretty what you are telling me," said little Ger… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "It may be all very pretty what you are telling me," said little Gerda, "but you speak so mournfully, and you do not mention little Kay at all." Who acts: picture, little Gerda, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Co
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 94

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"It may be all very pretty what you are telling me," said little Gerda, "but you speak so mournfully, and you do not mention little Kay at all."

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**Who acts:** picture, little Gerda, you · **What happens:** tell, say, speak, not mention · **To what, where:** little Gerda, little Kay, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (picture, little Gerda, you), 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:pg27200:172:94
# text = "It may be all very pretty what you are telling me," said little Gerda, "but you speak so mournfully, and you do not mention little Kay at all."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | may · progressive | picture |  | little Gerda *= gerda* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | little Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | mournfully *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | little Kay |  | all |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kay=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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