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title: And both the Ravens nodded, and begged for a fixed appointment; for… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And both the Ravens nodded, and begged for a fixed appointment; for they thought of their old age, and said, “It is a good thing to have a provision for our old days.” Who acts: Ravens, bits, appointment. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its depe
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 116

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And both the Ravens nodded, and begged for a fixed appointment; for they thought of their old age, and said, “It is a good thing to have a provision for our old days.”

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**Who acts:** Ravens, bits, appointment · **What happens:** nod, beg, fix, think, say, be · **To what, where:** good thing, provision · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ravens, bits, appointment), 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:pg1597:13:116
# text = And both the Ravens nodded, and begged for a fixed appointment; for they thought of their old age, and said, “It is a good thing to have a provision for our old days.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	both	both	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nod** | past | both Ravens |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | both Ravens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a fixed appointment | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for appointment=Topic |
| 3 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | bits *= bit* |  |  |  | of bits's old age |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bits *= bit* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | appointment | a good thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | bits *= bit* *not said here* | a provision |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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