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title: "But you have not won Babette yet," said the miller, slapping the yo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But you have not won Babette yet," said the miller, slapping the young Alpine hunter on the shoulder playfully. Who acts: you, miller. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 18

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"But you have not won Babette yet," said the miller, slapping the young Alpine hunter on the shoulder playfully.

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**Who acts:** you, miller · **What happens:** not win, say, slap · **To what, where:** Babette, young Alpine hunter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, miller), 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:pg27200:59:18
# text = "But you have not won Babette yet," said the miller, slapping the young Alpine hunter on the shoulder playfully.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
7	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	slapping	slap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Alpine	Alpine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	playfully	playfully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **win** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | Babette |  |  | yet |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babette=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the miller |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **slap** | gerund | the miller *not said here* | the young Alpine hunter |  |  |  | on the shoulder; playfully *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hunter=Instrument on shoulder=Patient |

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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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