--- title: However, I will speak about it to my tame sweetheart, and ask her ad… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: However, I will speak about it to my tame sweetheart, and ask her advice; for I must tell you it will be very difficult to gain permission for a little girl like you to enter the palace." Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/) / 64 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 64 However, I will speak about it to my tame sweetheart, and ask her advice; for I must tell you it will be very difficult to gain permission for a little girl like you to enter the palace." **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** speak, ask, tell, be, gain, enter · **To what, where:** advice, you, permission, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:173:64 # text = However, I will speak about it to my tame sweetheart, and ask her advice; for I must tell you it will be very difficult to gain permission for a little girl like you to enter the palace." 1 However however ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 tame tame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sweetheart sweetheart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 expl _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 gain gain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 30 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 like like SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | I | | | | | about palace; to my tame sweetheart; however *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to sweetheart=Co-Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | I *not said here* | crow's advice | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must | I | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | future | | | | | | difficult *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **gain** | to-infinitive | | permission | | | | for a little girl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent permission=Theme for girl=Beneficiary | | 6 | **enter** | to-infinitive | you | the palace | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/65/) - ↑ back to [The Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/)