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title: Then they sent for a watchmaker; and, after a great deal of talking… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they sent for a watchmaker; and, after a great deal of talking and examination, the bird was put into something like order; but he said that it must be used very carefully, as the barrels were worn, and it would be impossible to put in new ones without injuring the music. Who acts: wheels, talk
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 107

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Then they sent for a watchmaker; and, after a great deal of talking and examination, the bird was put into something like order; but he said that it must be used very carefully, as the barrels were worn, and it would be impossible to put in new ones without injuring the music.

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**Who acts:** wheels, talking, watchmaker, barrels · **What happens:** send, put, say, use, be, injure · **To what, where:** bird, something, order, music, talking · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheels, talking, watchmaker, barrels), 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:pg27200:125:107
# text = Then they sent for a watchmaker; and, after a great deal of talking and examination, the bird was put into something like order; but he said that it must be used very carefully, as the barrels were worn, and it would be impossible to put in new ones without injuring the music.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	watchmaker	watchmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	expl	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
49	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	csubj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
55	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
56	injuring	injure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | wheels *= wheel* |  |  |  | after a great deal of talking and examination; then | for a watchmaker | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past · passive | talking and examination *not said here* | the bird |  | something |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | watchmaker |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **use** | must · passive |  | order |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | the barrels |  |  |  |  | worn *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | would | watchmaker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **put** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in new ones | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in one=Destination |
| 8 | **injure** | gerund |  | the music |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **deal** |  |  | talking and examination |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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