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title: They put on different scales two or three times a day, and they emit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They put on different scales two or three times a day, and they emit sounds which they call speaking. Who acts: animals. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 94

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They put on different scales two or three times a day, and they emit sounds which they call speaking.

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** put, emit, call, speak · **To what, where:** different scales, sounds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals), 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:pg27200:26:94
# text = They put on different scales two or three times a day, and they emit sounds which they call speaking.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	emit	emit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **put** | past | animals *= animal* |  |  | different scales  two times  a day |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on scale=Destination |
| 2 | **emit** | present | animals *= animal* | sounds |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source sound=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present | animals *= animal* | sounds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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