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title: After he had been on the moor two days, there came two wild geese, o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After he had been on the moor two days, there came two wild geese, or rather goslings, for they had not been out of the egg long, and were very saucy. " Who acts: cat, geese. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 69

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After he had been on the moor two days, there came two wild geese, or rather goslings, for they had not been out of the egg long, and were very saucy. "

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**Who acts:** cat, geese · **What happens:** be, come, not be · **To what, where:** two wild geese, egg

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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 (cat, geese), 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:pg27200:201:69
# text = After he had been on the moor two days, there came two wild geese, or rather goslings, for they had not been out of the egg long, and were very saucy. "
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	goslings	gosling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	saucy	saucy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | cat |  |  |  | after the moor; day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | two wild geese or goslings |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goose=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | geese *= goose* |  |  | the egg |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | saucy *property* | 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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