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title: Ah,' said the gingerbread man to himself, 'if she had only known of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah,' said the gingerbread man to himself, 'if she had only known of my love, she would have kept together a little longer.' Who acts: gingerbread man, heart, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 32

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Ah,' said the gingerbread man to himself, 'if she had only known of my love, she would have kept together a little longer.'

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**Who acts:** gingerbread man, heart, my · **What happens:** say, know, keep together, love · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gingerbread man, heart, my), 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:pg27200:202:32
# text = Ah,' said the gingerbread man to himself, 'if she had only known of my love, she would have kept together a little longer.'
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the gingerbread man |  | man |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | heart |  |  |  |  | of my love | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of love=Stimulus |
| 3 | **keep together** | would · perfect | heart |  |  |  |  | long, together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **love** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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