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title: Here were birds from all quarters of the world assembled together; b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here were birds from all quarters of the world assembled together; birds from the primeval forests of America, from the rose gardens of Damascus, and from the deserts of Africa, in which the elephant and the lion may boast of being the only rulers. Who acts: birds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 5

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Here were birds from all quarters of the world assembled together; birds from the primeval forests of America, from the rose gardens of Damascus, and from the deserts of Africa, in which the elephant and the lion may boast of being the only rulers.

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**Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** be, assemble, boast · **To what, where:** birds, quarters

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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:pg27200:143:5
# text = Here were birds from all quarters of the world assembled together; birds from the primeval forests of America, from the rose gardens of Damascus, and from the deserts of Africa, in which the elephant and the lion may boast of being the only rulers.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	boast	boast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | birds |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **assemble** | participle |  | all quarters of the world *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | may | birds from the primeval forests of America and the rose gardens of Damascus and the deserts of Africa and the elephant and the lion | all quarters of the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the only rulers | tree rules |

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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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