--- title: The swallows knew nothing, but the stork, after a little reflection,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The swallows knew nothing, but the stork, after a little reflection, nodded his head, and said, "Yes, I think I do. Who acts: swallows, stork, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/) / 19 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 19 The swallows knew nothing, but the stork, after a little reflection, nodded his head, and said, "Yes, I think I do. **Who acts:** swallows, stork, I · **What happens:** know, nod, say, think, do · **To what, where:** nothing, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows, stork, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:33:19 # text = The swallows knew nothing, but the stork, after a little reflection, nodded his head, and said, "Yes, I think I do. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 swallows swallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 reflection reflection NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 15 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 26 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | the swallows | nothing | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 2 | **nod** | past | the stork and a little reflection | snow's head | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/20/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)