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title: "I have no water," said the captive lark, "they have all gone out, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I have no water," said the captive lark, "they have all gone out, and forgotten to give me anything to drink. Who acts: captive lark, boys. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 50

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"I have no water," said the captive lark, "they have all gone out, and forgotten to give me anything to drink.

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**Who acts:** captive lark, boys · **What happens:** have, say, go out, forget, not give, drink · **To what, where:** water, anything, captive lark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captive lark, boys), 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:pg27200:20:50
# text = "I have no water," said the captive lark, "they have all gone out, and forgotten to give me anything to drink.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the captive lark *= lark* | no water |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the captive lark |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go out** *in a quote* | present · perfect | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forget** *in a quote* | participle | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | anything | the captive lark *= lark* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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