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title: The birds of passage had also paid the weather-cock a visit and told… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The birds of passage had also paid the weather-cock a visit and told him of foreign countries, of airy caravans and robber stories that made one's hair stand on end. Who acts: airy caravans. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 20

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The birds of passage had also paid the weather-cock a visit and told him of foreign countries, of airy caravans and robber stories that made one's hair stand on end.

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**Who acts:** airy caravans · **What happens:** pay, tell, make · **To what, where:** birds, airy caravans, hair stand, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (airy caravans), 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:pg27200:19:20
# text = The birds of passage had also paid the weather-cock a visit and told him of foreign countries, of airy caravans and robber stories that made one's hair stand on end.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	caravans	caravan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	iobj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **pay** | past · perfect · passive |  | the birds of passage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | airy caravans and robber stories |  |  | of foreign countries | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient caravan=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | past | airy caravans and robber stories | one's hair stand |  |  | on end |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stand=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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