---
title: They will hang one, And fry another; They will shoot a third, And ro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They will hang one, And fry another; They will shoot a third, And roast his brother." Who acts: 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Storks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/) / 8

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 8

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They will hang one, And fry another; They will shoot a third, And roast his brother."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** storks · **What happens:** hang, fry, shoot, roast · **To what, where:** one, another, third, brother

<!-- .vabout -->
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:183:8
# text = They will hang one, And fry another; They will shoot a third, And roast his brother."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fry	fry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | future | storks *= stork* | one |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **fry** | infinitive | storks *= stork* *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent another=Patient |
| 3 | **shoot** | future | storks *= stork* | a third |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme |
| 4 | **roast** | infinitive | storks *= stork* *not said here* | number's brother |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/7/)
- next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/9/)
- ↑ back to [The Storks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/)