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title: "No, they will not freeze and fall into pieces," said the mother, "b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, they will not freeze and fall into pieces," said the mother, "but they will be very cold, and be obliged to sit all day in a dark, gloomy room, while we shall be flying about in foreign lands, where there are blooming flowers and warm sunshine." Who acts: storks, mother, we. A sentence of «Fair
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 34

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"No, they will not freeze and fall into pieces," said the mother, "but they will be very cold, and be obliged to sit all day in a dark, gloomy room, while we shall be flying about in foreign lands, where there are blooming flowers and warm sunshine."

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**Who acts:** storks, mother, we · **What happens:** not freeze, fall, say, be, oblige, sit · **To what, where:** pieces, dark gloomy room, flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, mother, we), 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:pg27200:183:34
# text = "No, they will not freeze and fall into pieces," said the mother, "but they will be very cold, and be obliged to sit all day in a dark, gloomy room, while we shall be flying about in foreign lands, where there are blooming flowers and warm sunshine."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux	_	_
44	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
45	about	about	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	52	advmod	_	_
51	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	52	expl	_	_
52	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
54	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **freeze** *in a quote* | future | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | infinitive | storks *= stork* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into pieces *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **oblige** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | the mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 6 | **sit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the mother *not said here* |  |  | a dark gloomy room | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 7 | **fly** *in a quote* | shall · progressive | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bloom** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we *not said here* | flowers and warm sunshine |  |  |  | about foreign lands | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=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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