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title: "That may be all very well," said another sparrow, who had been hopp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "That may be all very well," said another sparrow, who had been hopping about for a long time, chirping, but not saying anything of consequence, "but I have found a few comforts here in town which, I'm afraid, I should miss out in the country. Who acts: sparrow, town. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of H
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 24

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"That may be all very well," said another sparrow, who had been hopping about for a long time, chirping, but not saying anything of consequence, "but I have found a few comforts here in town which, I'm afraid, I should miss out in the country.

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**Who acts:** sparrow, town · **What happens:** be, say, hop about, chirp, not say, find · **To what, where:** anything, few comforts, town, country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sparrow, town), 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:pg27200:214:24
# text = "That may be all very well," said another sparrow, who had been hopping about for a long time, chirping, but not saying anything of consequence, "but I have found a few comforts here in town which, I'm afraid, I should miss out in the country.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	ccomp	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
17	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	chirping	chirp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
29	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	comforts	comfort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	ccomp	_	_
53	out	out	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | may |  |  |  |  |  | all, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | another sparrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hop about** | past · perfect · progressive | another sparrow |  |  |  | time | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **chirp** | gerund | another sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | another sparrow *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 6 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect | another sparrow *= sparrow* | a few comforts |  | town; here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | town |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **miss out** *in a quote* | should | another sparrow *= sparrow* |  |  | the country |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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