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title: "But now, if I have been lying the whole winter in the moor," said t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But now, if I have been lying the whole winter in the moor," said the swallow, "and suppose I slept the whole time, would that be taken into account?" Who acts: swallow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 13

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"But now, if I have been lying the whole winter in the moor," said the swallow, "and suppose I slept the whole time, would that be taken into account?"

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**Who acts:** swallow · **What happens:** lie, say, suppose, sleep, take · **To what, where:** moor, that, account · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow), 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:pg27200:153:13
# text = "But now, if I have been lying the whole winter in the moor," said the swallow, "and suppose I slept the whole time, would that be taken into account?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | the swallow *= swallow* |  |  | the moor | winter |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moor=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the swallow |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present | the swallow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** *in a quote* | past | the swallow *= swallow* |  |  |  | time |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | would · passive |  | that |  | account |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into account=Destination |

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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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