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title: The pigeon-mothers said to their young ones: "Stand in groups, stand… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The pigeon-mothers said to their young ones: "Stand in groups, stand in groups! for that looks much better." Who acts: pigeon mothers, that. 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 claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 126

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The pigeon-mothers said to their young ones: "Stand in groups, stand in groups! for that looks much better."

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**Who acts:** pigeon mothers, that · **What happens:** say, stand, look · **To what, where:** young ones, groups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pigeon mothers, that), 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:pg27200:124:126
# text = The pigeon-mothers said to their young ones: "Stand in groups, stand in groups! for that looks much better."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the pigeon mothers |  | roses's young ones |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | groups |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location |
| 3 | **stand** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | groups |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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