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title: Of course his sweetheart was a crow, for "birds of a feather flock t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course his sweetheart was a crow, for "birds of a feather flock together," and one crow always chooses another crow. Who acts: sweetheart, you, one crow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 26

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Of course his sweetheart was a crow, for "birds of a feather flock together," and one crow always chooses another crow.

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**Who acts:** sweetheart, you, one crow · **What happens:** be, flock together, choose · **To what, where:** crow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweetheart, you, one crow), 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:pg27200:173:26
# text = Of course his sweetheart was a crow, for "birds of a feather flock together," and one crow always chooses another crow.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	flock	flock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	chooses	choose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sweetheart's sweetheart |  |  |  |  | of a crow; for birds of a feather | tree rules |
| 2 | **flock together** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | present | one crow | another crow |  |  |  | always *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme |

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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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