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title: There will be a number of very superior storks there with their fami… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There will be a number of very superior storks there with their families, and I expect you to show them that my children are the best brought up of any who may be present. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 63

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There will be a number of very superior storks there with their families, and I expect you to show them that my children are the best brought up of any who may be present.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, show, bring up · **To what, where:** families, children · **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 (I), 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:pg27200:183:63
# text = There will be a number of very superior storks there with their families, and I expect you to show them that my children are the best brought up of any who may be present.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	expect	expect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	nsubj	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	obl	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | I |  |  |  |  | expect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | families *= family* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring up** | present · passive |  | my children |  |  |  | of any | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | may |  |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |

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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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