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title: So soon as she lay in the earth, the birds disappeared; but on the s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So soon as she lay in the earth, the birds disappeared; but on the same evening in Jutland, at the old manor house, an enormous number of crows and choughs were seen; they all cried as loud as they could, as if they had some announcement to make. Who acts: number, birds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 236

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So soon as she lay in the earth, the birds disappeared; but on the same evening in Jutland, at the old manor house, an enormous number of crows and choughs were seen; they all cried as loud as they could, as if they had some announcement to make.

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**Who acts:** number, birds · **What happens:** lie, disappear, see, cry, have, make · **To what, where:** earth, old manor house, announcement

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, birds), 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:pg27200:149:236
# text = So soon as she lay in the earth, the birds disappeared; but on the same evening in Jutland, at the old manor house, an enormous number of crows and choughs were seen; they all cried as loud as they could, as if they had some announcement to make.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	manor	manor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	choughs	chough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	all	all	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
52	announcement	announcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | number |  |  | the earth |  | soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | the birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | the old manor house and a enormous number of crows and choughs |  |  | evening |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | all, loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | birds *= bird* | some announcement |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent announcement=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=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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