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title: Will you, then, marry a maiden who honors and esteems you, although… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Will you, then, marry a maiden who honors and esteems you, although she cannot offer you her love? but that may come.' ' Who acts: you, maiden, following Sunday, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 121

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Will you, then, marry a maiden who honors and esteems you, although she cannot offer you her love? but that may come.' '

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**Who acts:** you, maiden, following Sunday, that · **What happens:** marry, honor, esteem, not offer, come, love · **To what, where:** maiden, you, love

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden, following Sunday, 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:pg27200:46:121
# text = Will you, then, marry a maiden who honors and esteems you, although she cannot offer you her love? but that may come.' '
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	honors	honor	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	esteems	esteem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | future | you | a maiden |  |  | then |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient |
| 2 | **honor** | present | a maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **esteem** | present | a maiden *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **offer** | can | following Sunday *= sunday* | following Sunday's love | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal love=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | may | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **love** |  | following Sunday *= sunday* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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