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title: No one was there; the third sparrow, seeing this, flew still farther… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No one was there; the third sparrow, seeing this, flew still farther into the room, exclaiming, "All or nothing! Who acts: one, third sparrow. 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 cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 154

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No one was there; the third sparrow, seeing this, flew still farther into the room, exclaiming, "All or nothing!

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**Who acts:** one, third sparrow · **What happens:** be, see, fly, exclaim · **To what, where:** this, room

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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 (one, third sparrow), 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:pg27200:124:154
# text = No one was there; the third sparrow, seeing this, flew still farther into the room, exclaiming, "All or nothing!
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the third sparrow *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into the room *result*; far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result |
| 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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