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title: "No, those are frogs," said the little maiden; "but I think we shall… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, those are frogs," said the little maiden; "but I think we shall soon hear her now:" and presently the nightingale began to sing. Who acts: frogs, we, nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 46

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"No, those are frogs," said the little maiden; "but I think we shall soon hear her now:" and presently the nightingale began to sing.

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**Who acts:** frogs, we, nightingale · **What happens:** be, say, think, hear, begin, sing · **To what, where:** frogs, little maiden, girl · **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 (frogs, we, nightingale), 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:pg27200:125:46
# text = "No, those are frogs," said the little maiden; "but I think we shall soon hear her now:" and presently the nightingale began to sing.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that frogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | that frogs | the little maiden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | that frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | shall | we | girl |  |  | now | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the nightingale |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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