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title: "I certainly know a most beautiful bride," said one of the ants; "bu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I certainly know a most beautiful bride," said one of the ants; "but I fear it would not do, for she is a queen." Who acts: I, one, business, bride. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 37

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"I certainly know a most beautiful bride," said one of the ants; "but I fear it would not do, for she is a queen."

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**Who acts:** I, one, business, bride · **What happens:** know, say, fear, not do, be · **To what, where:** beautiful bride · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, business, bride), 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:pg27200:48:37
# text = "I certainly know a most beautiful bride," said one of the ants; "but I fear it would not do, for she is a queen."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | I | a beautiful bride |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one of the ants |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | would | business |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bride |  |  |  |  | for a queen | tree rules |

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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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