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title: "No, my dear husband, it must be that one," said the queen, pointing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, my dear husband, it must be that one," said the queen, pointing to a second door having a cross also. Who acts: household, dear husband. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 86

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"No, my dear husband, it must be that one," said the queen, pointing to a second door having a cross also.

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**Who acts:** household, dear husband · **What happens:** be, say, point, have · **To what, where:** one, queen, second door, cross · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (household, dear husband), 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:pg27200:193:86
# text = "No, my dear husband, it must be that one," said the queen, pointing to a second door having a cross also.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | household | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my dear husband | the queen |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent queen=Topic |
| 3 | **point** | gerund | my dear husband *not said here* |  | a second door |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to door=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | my dear husband *not said here* | a cross |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Patient |

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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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