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title: Oh, how gladly she would have shaken off all this grandeur, and laid… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, how gladly she would have shaken off all this grandeur, and laid aside the heavy wreath! Who acts: Pride. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 73

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Oh, how gladly she would have shaken off all this grandeur, and laid aside the heavy wreath!

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**Who acts:** Pride · **What happens:** shake off, lay · **To what, where:** grandeur

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pride), 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:pg27200:75:73
# text = Oh, how gladly she would have shaken off all this grandeur, and laid aside the heavy wreath!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
16	aside	aside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake off** | would · perfect | Pride | all grandeur |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grandeur=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | participle | Pride *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside the heavy wreath | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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