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title: Whose little lambs will they one day become? thought I; their shephe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Whose little lambs will they one day become? thought I; their shepherd will be a gallant knight, perhaps a prince. Who acts: little lambs, shepherd. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 35

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Whose little lambs will they one day become? thought I; their shepherd will be a gallant knight, perhaps a prince.

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**Who acts:** little lambs, shepherd · **What happens:** become, think, be · **To what, where:** I, gallant knight

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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 (little lambs, shepherd), 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:pg27200:212:35
# text = Whose little lambs will they one day become? thought I; their shepherd will be a gallant knight, perhaps a prince.
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | future | little lambs |  |  |  | day |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | little lambs *not said here* | I |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | future | ladies's shepherd | a gallant knight and a prince |  |  |  |  | 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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