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title: No one but the king himself can pass in or out, for there has been a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No one but the king himself can pass in or out, for there has been a prophecy that she will marry a common soldier, and the king cannot bear to think of such a marriage." Who acts: one, princess, king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 52

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No one but the king himself can pass in or out, for there has been a prophecy that she will marry a common soldier, and the king cannot bear to think of such a marriage."

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**Who acts:** one, princess, king · **What happens:** pass, be, marry, not bear, think · **To what, where:** prophecy, common soldier

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, princess, king), 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:pg27200:193:52
# text = No one but the king himself can pass in or out, for there has been a prophecy that she will marry a common soldier, and the king cannot bear to think of such a marriage."
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	38	det:predet	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | can | no one but the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | a prophecy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | future | princess | a common soldier |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **bear** | can | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of such marriage | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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