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title: For our part we don't care to fill our beaks with such long words, b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For our part we don't care to fill our beaks with such long words, but we sympathize with you quite as much. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 32

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For our part we don't care to fill our beaks with such long words, but we sympathize with you quite as much.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not care, fill, sympathize · **To what, where:** beaks

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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), 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:pg27200:145:32
# text = For our part we don't care to fill our beaks with such long words, but we sympathize with you quite as much.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sympathize	sympathize	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | we |  |  |  |  | for our part | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | our beaks |  |  |  | with such long words | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent beak=Patient with word=Instrument |
| 3 | **sympathize** | present | we |  |  |  |  | with you | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with you=Stimulus |

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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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