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title: "But," said little Ida, "is there no one there to hurt the flowers f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But," said little Ida, "is there no one there to hurt the flowers for dancing in the king's castle?" Who acts: little Ida. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 25

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"But," said little Ida, "is there no one there to hurt the flowers for dancing in the king's castle?"

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**Who acts:** little Ida · **What happens:** say, be, hurt · **To what, where:** one, flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Ida), 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:pg27200:73:25
# text = "But," said little Ida, "is there no one there to hurt the flowers for dancing in the king's castle?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	csubj	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | little Ida |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | no one |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the flowers |  |  |  | for dancing in the king's castle | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=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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