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title: The fowls from the neighborhood will soon be here to pay you a visit. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fowls from the neighborhood will soon be here to pay you a visit. Who acts: fowls. 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 41

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The fowls from the neighborhood will soon be here to pay you a visit.

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**Who acts:** fowls · **What happens:** be, pay · **To what, where:** you

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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 (fowls), 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:pg27200:145:41
# text = The fowls from the neighborhood will soon be here to pay you a visit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | the fowls from the neighborhood |  |  |  |  | here, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the fowls from the neighborhood *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient visit=Asset |

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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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