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title: We shall never have another singing-bird again amongst us; he was al… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We shall never have another singing-bird again amongst us; he was almost a Chinese," they whispered, and then they wept with such a noisy, clucking sound, that all the other fowls clucked too, but the ducks went about with redder eyes afterwards. " Who acts: We, bird, passions, ducks. A sentence of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 113

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We shall never have another singing-bird again amongst us; he was almost a Chinese," they whispered, and then they wept with such a noisy, clucking sound, that all the other fowls clucked too, but the ducks went about with redder eyes afterwards. "

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**Who acts:** We, bird, passions, ducks · **What happens:** not have, be, whisper, weep, cluck, go about · **To what, where:** singing bird, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, bird, passions, ducks), 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:pg27200:145:113
# text = We shall never have another singing-bird again amongst us; he was almost a Chinese," they whispered, and then they wept with such a noisy, clucking sound, that all the other fowls clucked too, but the ducks went about with redder eyes afterwards. "
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
6	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	clucking	cluck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obj	_	_
39	fowls	fowl	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	clucked	cluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
41	too	too	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
46	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
47	about	about	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	redder	redder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
51	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | shall | We | another singing bird |  |  | again | amongst us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | bird |  |  |  |  | almost, chinese *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | passions *= passion* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weep** *in a quote* | past | passions *= passion* |  |  |  | then | with such noisy clucking sound | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cluck** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cluck** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **go about** *in a quote* | past | the ducks |  |  |  |  | with redder eyes; about, afterwards *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with eye=Instrument |

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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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