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title: Now we will fly to the pond and fetch a little baby for each of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now we will fly to the pond and fetch a little baby for each of the children who did not sing that naughty song to make game of the storks." Who acts: we, children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 90

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Now we will fly to the pond and fetch a little baby for each of the children who did not sing that naughty song to make game of the storks."

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**Who acts:** we, children · **What happens:** fly, fetch, not sing, make · **To what, where:** little baby, naughty song, game

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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, children), 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:pg27200:183:90
# text = Now we will fly to the pond and fetch a little baby for each of the children who did not sing that naughty song to make game of the storks."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
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	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | future | we |  |  |  | now | to the pond *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pond=Result |
| 2 | **fetch** | present | we *not said here* | a little baby |  |  |  | for each | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent baby=Theme for each=Source |
| 3 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | past · do-support | the children | that naughty song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | game of the storks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product |

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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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