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title: "I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck; "as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck; "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing." Who acts: I, duck, few days. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 26

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"I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck; "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing."

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**Who acts:** I, duck, few days · **What happens:** think, sit, say, be · **To what, where:** little, egg, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, duck, few days), 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:pg27200:201:26
# text = "I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck; "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
26	already	already	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | future | I | a little |  | egg |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the duck |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the duck *= duck* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | a few days | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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