--- title: "Oh, no! no! pray let me dry," implored the little bird. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Oh, no! no! pray let me dry," implored the little bird. Who acts: you, Portuguese duck. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Portuguese Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/) / 38 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 38 "Oh, no! no! pray let me dry," implored the little bird. **Who acts:** you, Portuguese duck · **What happens:** pray, let, dry, implore · **To what, where:** Portuguese duck, little bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, Portuguese duck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:145:38 # text = "Oh, no! no! pray let me dry," implored the little bird. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 6 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 8 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 dry dry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 implored implore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the Portuguese duck *= duck* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dry** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Portuguese duck *= duck* *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **implore** | past | | | the little bird | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/39/) - ↑ back to [The Portuguese Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/)