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title: In the country they have more knowledge; shall we fly away there and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the country they have more knowledge; shall we fly away there and wait? we shall be nearer to spring then, certainly." Who acts: stars, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 23

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In the country they have more knowledge; shall we fly away there and wait? we shall be nearer to spring then, certainly."

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**Who acts:** stars, we · **What happens:** have, fly away, wait, be, spring · **To what, where:** more knowledge, country

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, we), 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:pg27200:214:23
# text = In the country they have more knowledge; shall we fly away there and wait? we shall be nearer to spring then, certainly."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | stars *= star* | more knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
| 2 | **fly away** | shall | we |  |  | the country; there | then | away, certainly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in country=Location |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spring** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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