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title: Then I went to the sea shore, to look after birds' nests, and saw th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I went to the sea shore, to look after birds' nests, and saw the unfledged nestlings opening their mouths and screaming for food. Who acts: I, unfledged nestlings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 46

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Then I went to the sea shore, to look after birds' nests, and saw the unfledged nestlings opening their mouths and screaming for food.

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**Who acts:** I, unfledged nestlings · **What happens:** go, look, see, open, scream · **To what, where:** sea shore, unfledged nestlings, mouths

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, unfledged nestlings), 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:pg27200:140:46
# text = Then I went to the sea shore, to look after birds' nests, and saw the unfledged nestlings opening their mouths and screaming for food.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	unfledged	unfledged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nestlings	nestling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | I |  |  | the sea shore | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | after birds's nests |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | I *not said here* | the unfledged nestlings |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nestling=Stimulus |
| 4 | **open** | gerund | the unfledged nestlings *not said here* | nestlings's mouths |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 5 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | the unfledged nestlings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for food | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for food=Recipient |

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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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