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title: Farewell, farewell," cried the prince and princess, and little Gerda… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Farewell, farewell," cried the prince and princess, and little Gerda wept, and the crow wept; and then, after a few miles, the crow also said "Farewell," and this was the saddest parting. Who acts: little Gerda, crow, this. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 117

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Farewell, farewell," cried the prince and princess, and little Gerda wept, and the crow wept; and then, after a few miles, the crow also said "Farewell," and this was the saddest parting.

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**Who acts:** little Gerda, crow, this · **What happens:** cry, weep, say, be · **To what, where:** prince, saddest parting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Gerda, crow, this), 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:pg27200:173:117
# text = Farewell, farewell," cried the prince and princess, and little Gerda wept, and the crow wept; and then, after a few miles, the crow also said "Farewell," and this was the saddest parting.
1	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	saddest	sad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
43	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the prince and princess |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
| 2 | **weep** *in a quote* | past | little Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weep** *in a quote* | past | the crow |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the crow |  |  |  | after a few miles; then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | this | the saddest parting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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