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title: The copying-clerk, or, as the lady said, the brown field-bird, was p… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The copying-clerk, or, as the lady said, the brown field-bird, was put into a small cage, close to the Canary, and not far from “my good Polly.” Who acts: lady. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 3

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The copying-clerk, or, as the lady said, the brown field-bird, was put into a small cage, close to the Canary, and not far from “my good Polly.”

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** say, put · **To what, where:** copying clerk, small cage · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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:pg1597:9:3
# text = The copying-clerk, or, as the lady said, the brown field-bird, was put into a small cage, close to the Canary, and not far from “my good Polly.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Canary	Canary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Polly	polly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past · passive |  | the copying clerk or the brown field bird |  | a small cage |  | from my good Polly | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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