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title: I think he will grow up pretty, and perhaps be smaller; he has remai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I think he will grow up pretty, and perhaps be smaller; he has remained too long in the egg, and therefore his figure is not properly formed;" and then she stroked his neck and smoothed the feathers, saying, "It is a drake, and therefore not of so much consequence. Who acts: I, child, mother, figure
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 51

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I think he will grow up pretty, and perhaps be smaller; he has remained too long in the egg, and therefore his figure is not properly formed;" and then she stroked his neck and smoothed the feathers, saying, "It is a drake, and therefore not of so much consequence.

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**Who acts:** I, child, mother, figure · **What happens:** think, grow up, be, remain, not form, stroke · **To what, where:** egg, figure, neck, feathers, drake · **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, child, mother, figure), 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:pg27200:201:51
# text = I think he will grow up pretty, and perhaps be smaller; he has remained too long in the egg, and therefore his figure is not properly formed;" and then she stroked his neck and smoothed the feathers, saying, "It is a drake, and therefore not of so much consequence.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	stroked	stroke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	drake	drake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
53	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	so	so	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | future | child |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | perhaps, small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | present · perfect | child |  |  | the egg |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egg=Location |
| 5 | **not** **form** | present · passive |  | child's figure |  |  |  | properly, therefore *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **stroke** *in a quote* | past | mother | child's neck |  |  | then | of much consequence | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer |
| 7 | **smooth** *in a quote* | past | mother *not said here* | the feathers |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is a** | present | figure | a drake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **figure** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=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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