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title: My little singing-bird do you wish me to prepare another bath for yo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: My little singing-bird do you wish me to prepare another bath for you?" Who acts: little singing bird. 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 37

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My little singing-bird do you wish me to prepare another bath for you?"

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**Who acts:** little singing bird · **What happens:** wish, prepare · **To what, where:** me, bath

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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 (little singing bird), 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:pg27200:145:37
# text = My little singing-bird do you wish me to prepare another bath for you?"
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present · do-support | My little singing bird |  | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | My little singing bird *not said here* | another bath |  |  |  | for you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bath=Product for you=Beneficiary |

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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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