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title: "We will revenge ourselves," whispered the young storks to each othe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "We will revenge ourselves," whispered the young storks to each other, as they again joined the exercising. Who acts: We, revenge, storks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 68

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"We will revenge ourselves," whispered the young storks to each other, as they again joined the exercising.

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**Who acts:** We, revenge, storks · **What happens:** revenge, whisper, join · **To what, where:** ourselves, young storks, each, exercising · **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 (We, revenge, storks), 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:pg27200:183:68
# text = "We will revenge ourselves," whispered the young storks to each other, as they again joined the exercising.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	8	obl	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	exercising	exercising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revenge** *in a quote* | future | We | ourselves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | revenge | the young storks | each |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stork=Topic to each=Recipient |
| 3 | **join** | past | storks *= stork* | the exercising |  |  | again |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exercising=Patient |

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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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