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title: Come gentle sun, while the cuckoo sings, And I'll mock his note in m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Come gentle sun, while the cuckoo sings, And I'll mock his note in my wanderings." Who acts: you, cuckoo, I, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 117

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Come gentle sun, while the cuckoo sings, And I'll mock his note in my wanderings."

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**Who acts:** you, cuckoo, I, my · **What happens:** come, sing, mock, note, wander · **To what, where:** gentle sun, note, wanderings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cuckoo, I, my), 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:pg27200:169:117
# text = Come gentle sun, while the cuckoo sings, And I'll mock his note in my wanderings."
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	mock	mock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | gentle sun |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the cuckoo |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mock** | future | I | cuckoo's note |  | my wanderings |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |
| 4 | **note** |  | cuckoo |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **wander** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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