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title: “To-day is Polly's birthday,” said she with stupid simplicity: “and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “To-day is Polly's birthday,” said she with stupid simplicity: “and the little brown field-bird must wish him joy.” Who acts: Polly, little brown field bird. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 111

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“To-day is Polly's birthday,” said she with stupid simplicity: “and the little brown field-bird must wish him joy.”

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**Who acts:** Polly, little brown field bird · **What happens:** be, say, wish · **To what, where:** birthday, joy, Clerk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polly, little brown field bird), 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:pg1597:8:111
# text = “To-day is Polly's birthday,” said she with stupid simplicity: “and the little brown field-bird must wish him joy.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Polly	Polly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Polly *not said here* | Polly's birthday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Polly |  |  |  | day | with stupid simplicity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | must | the little brown field bird | joy | Clerk |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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