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title: "But the naughty boy, who began the song first, what shall we do to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But the naughty boy, who began the song first, what shall we do to him?" cried the young storks. Who acts: naughty boy, we, young 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 91

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"But the naughty boy, who began the song first, what shall we do to him?" cried the young storks.

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**Who acts:** naughty boy, we, young storks · **What happens:** begin, do, cry · **To what, where:** song, naughty boy, general · **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 (naughty boy, we, young 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:pg27200:183:91
# text = "But the naughty boy, who began the song first, what shall we do to him?" cried the young storks.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the naughty boy | the song |  |  |  | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | we | the naughty boy | general |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the young storks |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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