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title: Yes,' continued the dryad, 'the birds sing up above in the branches,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes,' continued the dryad, 'the birds sing up above in the branches, and talk to each other about the beautiful fields they have visited in foreign lands; and on one of the withered boughs a stork has built his nest,--it is beautifully arranged, and besides it is pleasant to hear a little about the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 49

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Yes,' continued the dryad, 'the birds sing up above in the branches, and talk to each other about the beautiful fields they have visited in foreign lands; and on one of the withered boughs a stork has built his nest,--it is beautifully arranged, and besides it is pleasant to hear a little about the land of the pyramids.

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**Who acts:** birds, beautiful fields, nest · **What happens:** continue, sing up, talk, visit, wither, build · **To what, where:** dryad, branches, birds, foreign lands, stork, nest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, beautiful fields, nest), 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:pg27200:180:49
# text = Yes,' continued the dryad, 'the birds sing up above in the branches, and talk to each other about the beautiful fields they have visited in foreign lands; and on one of the withered boughs a stork has built his nest,--it is beautifully arranged, and besides it is pleasant to hear a little about the land of the pyramids.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dryad	dryad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	above	above	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	19	obl	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
51	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	advcl	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	obj	_	_
63	about	about	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past |  | the dryad |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dryad=Theme |
| 2 | **sing up** *speech: express* | present | the birds |  |  | the branches |  | above *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to each; about the beautiful fields | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent about field=Topic |
| 4 | **visit** | present · perfect · passive | the beautiful fields *not said here* | birds *= bird* |  | foreign lands |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **build** | present · perfect · passive |  | a stork |  |  |  | on one; of the withered boughs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product |
| 7 | **arrange** | present · passive |  | nest |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 8 | **is** | present | nest |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **hear** | to-infinitive | nest *not said here* | a little |  |  |  | about the land of the pyramids | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |

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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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