--- title: "Quack, quack, quack," grinned the ducks; but, the stork pretended n… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Quack, quack, quack," grinned the ducks; but, the stork pretended not to hear. Who acts: Quack, stork. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/) / 79 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 79 "Quack, quack, quack," grinned the ducks; but, the stork pretended not to hear. **Who acts:** Quack, stork · **What happens:** grin, pretend, not hear · **To what, where:** ducks 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 (Quack, stork), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:134:79 # text = "Quack, quack, quack," grinned the ducks; but, the stork pretended not to hear. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Quack quack NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 quack quack NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 quack quack NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 grinned grin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grin** | past | Quack and quack and quack | the ducks | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme | | 2 | **pretend** | past | the stork | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **hear** | to-infinitive | the stork *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/80/) - ↑ back to [Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/)