--- title: "'I'm watching the stork,' she replied: 'our neighbors told me that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "'I'm watching the stork,' she replied: 'our neighbors told me that he would bring us a little brother or sister to-day; let us watch to see it come!' Who acts: roof, neighbors, stork, us. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Thirteenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/) / 9 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 9 "'I'm watching the stork,' she replied: 'our neighbors told me that he would bring us a little brother or sister to-day; let us watch to see it come!' **Who acts:** roof, neighbors, stork, us, tree · **What happens:** watch, reply, tell, bring, let, see · **To what, where:** stork, roof, little brother, us, tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof, neighbors, stork, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:104:9 # text = "'I'm watching the stork,' she replied: 'our neighbors told me that he would bring us a little brother or sister to-day; let us watch to see it come!' 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 neighbors neighbor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 22 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 32 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 33 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** *in a quote* | present · progressive | roof | the stork | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Theme | | 2 | **reply** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | roof | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | our neighbors | | roof | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | would | stork | a little brother or sister | us | | day | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination brother=Theme | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | tree | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | tree *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/10/) - ↑ back to [Thirteenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/)