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title: Just by the palace the magician stopped to wish the princess farewel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Just by the palace the magician stopped to wish the princess farewell, and to whisper in her ear, "To-morrow think of my head." Who acts: palace, head. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 50

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Just by the palace the magician stopped to wish the princess farewell, and to whisper in her ear, "To-morrow think of my head."

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**Who acts:** palace, head · **What happens:** stop, wish, whisper, think · **To what, where:** princess farewell, morrow think, ear

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, head), 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:pg27200:198:50
# text = Just by the palace the magician stopped to wish the princess farewell, and to whisper in her ear, "To-morrow think of my head."
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	To	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	think	think	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the palace |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wish** | to-infinitive | the palace *not said here* | the princess farewell |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot farewell=Theme |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the palace *not said here* | morrow think of my head |  | palace's ear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 4 | **think** *in a quote* |  | my head |  |  |  |  |  | nom think «cognition intransitive»: of=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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