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title: Every one has permission to go and ask her hand, even the poorest be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every one has permission to go and ask her hand, even the poorest beggar. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 47

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Every one has permission to go and ask her hand, even the poorest beggar.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** have, go, ask · **To what, where:** permission, hand

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg27200:197:47
# text = Every one has permission to go and ask her hand, even the poorest beggar.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	poorest	poor	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every one | permission |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | every one *not said here* | permission *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | every one *not said here* | princess's hand and the poorest beggar |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient |

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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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