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title: "No; if there must be a change," said the younger, "I should prefer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No; if there must be a change," said the younger, "I should prefer to be called 'Missy,' for that reminds one a little of maidens." Who acts: change, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 20

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"No; if there must be a change," said the younger, "I should prefer to be called 'Missy,' for that reminds one a little of maidens."

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**Who acts:** change, that · **What happens:** be, say, prefer, call, remind · **To what, where:** change, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, that), 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:pg27200:200:20
# text = "No; if there must be a change," said the younger, "I should prefer to be called 'Missy,' for that reminds one a little of maidens."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	prefer	prefer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Missy	Missy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
29	reminds	remind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	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* | infinitive |  | a change |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a change |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **prefer** *in a quote* | should | a change *= change* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **call** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | a change *= change* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **remind** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | that | one |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=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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