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title: I should not dislike a walk here with the miller's Christine,' said… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I should not dislike a walk here with the miller's Christine,' said one--and they flew past. Who acts: I, youth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 20

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I should not dislike a walk here with the miller's Christine,' said one--and they flew past.

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**Who acts:** I, youth · **What happens:** not dislike, say, fly · **To what, where:** walk, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, youth), 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:pg27200:98:20
# text = I should not dislike a walk here with the miller's Christine,' said one--and they flew past.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	dislike	dislike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Christine	Christine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	past	past	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dislike** | should | I | a walk |  | here |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer walk=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | one |  |  |  | with the miller's Christine | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent one=Theme with christine=Manner |
| 3 | **fly** | past | youth |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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