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title: Is there, in this nut, a pretty little neckerchief like the one Chri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Is there, in this nut, a pretty little neckerchief like the one Christina has on her neck?" asked Ib. Who acts: Christina, nut. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 67

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Is there, in this nut, a pretty little neckerchief like the one Christina has on her neck?" asked Ib.

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**Who acts:** Christina, nut · **What happens:** be, have, ask · **To what, where:** nut, one, neck, Ib

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christina, nut), 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:pg27200:51:67
# text = Is there, in this nut, a pretty little neckerchief like the one Christina has on her neck?" asked Ib.
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	neckerchief	neckerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	on	on	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	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | this nut |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Christina | the one *not said here* |  | Christina's neck |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | this nut |  | Ib |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ib=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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