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title: The frightened Canary fluttered about in his cage; the Parrot flappe… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The frightened Canary fluttered about in his cage; the Parrot flapped his wings, and cried, “Come, let us be men!” Who acts: frightened Canary, Parrot, men. 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 every cl
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 38

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The frightened Canary fluttered about in his cage; the Parrot flapped his wings, and cried, “Come, let us be men!”

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**Who acts:** frightened Canary, Parrot, men · **What happens:** flutter, flap, cry, come, let, be · **To what, where:** wings, us · **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 (frightened Canary, Parrot, men), 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:pg1597:9:38
# text = The frightened Canary fluttered about in his cage; the Parrot flapped his wings, and cried, “Come, let us be men!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Canary	Canary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Parrot	Parrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flutter** | past | the frightened Canary |  |  |  |  | about Canary's cage | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about cage=Location |
| 2 | **flap** | past | the Parrot | Canary's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Parrot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | men |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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:** «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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