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title: There are some up above too; they put out their heads and pipe softl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There are some up above too; they put out their heads and pipe softly; they have no feathers like their father and mother. Who acts: some, roses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 12

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There are some up above too; they put out their heads and pipe softly; they have no feathers like their father and mother.

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**Who acts:** some, roses · **What happens:** be, put out, have · **To what, where:** heads, feathers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, roses), 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:pg27200:124:12
# text = There are some up above too; they put out their heads and pipe softly; they have no feathers like their father and mother.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	above	above	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | some |  |  | there |  | above *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put out** | past | roses *= rose* | roses's heads and pipe |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 3 | **have** | present | roses *= rose* | no feathers |  |  |  | like roses's father and mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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:** «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.

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