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title: She had the Egyptian bird to thank for that; or was it perchance her… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had the Egyptian bird to thank for that; or was it perchance her reward for having once interceded for the preservation of the nest of its black brother in the forest of Borreby? Who acts: stork, shed, perchance reward. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 183

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She had the Egyptian bird to thank for that; or was it perchance her reward for having once interceded for the preservation of the nest of its black brother in the forest of Borreby?

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**Who acts:** stork, shed, perchance reward · **What happens:** have, thank, be, intercede, preserve · **To what, where:** Egyptian bird, perchance reward, nest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork, shed, perchance reward), 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:pg27200:212:183
# text = She had the Egyptian bird to thank for that; or was it perchance her reward for having once interceded for the preservation of the nest of its black brother in the forest of Borreby?
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	perchance	perchance	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
20	interceded	intercede	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Borreby	Borreby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | past | stork | the Egyptian bird |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | stork *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for that | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for that=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | past | shed | stork's perchance reward |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | stork's perchance reward *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **intercede** | participle | stork's perchance reward *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the preservation of the nest of shed's black brother in the forest of Borreby | tree rules |
| 6 | **preserve** |  |  | the nest of shed's black brother in the forest of Borreby |  |  |  |  | nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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