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title: "But one cabbage stalk is exactly like another," said the swallow; "… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But one cabbage stalk is exactly like another," said the swallow; "and here we have often bad weather." Who acts: one cabbage stalk, another, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 147

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"But one cabbage stalk is exactly like another," said the swallow; "and here we have often bad weather."

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**Who acts:** one cabbage stalk, another, we · **What happens:** be, say, have · **To what, where:** swallow, bad weather · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one cabbage stalk, another, we), 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:pg27200:134:147
# text = "But one cabbage stalk is exactly like another," said the swallow; "and here we have often bad weather."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | one cabbage stalk |  |  |  |  | like another; exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | another | the swallow |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swallow=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | bad weather |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=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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