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title: I wonder if the sparrows will peep in at the windows as they fly? sh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I wonder if the sparrows will peep in at the windows as they fly? shall I grow faster here, and keep on all these ornaments summer and winter?" Who acts: I, sparrows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 69

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I wonder if the sparrows will peep in at the windows as they fly? shall I grow faster here, and keep on all these ornaments summer and winter?"

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**Who acts:** I, sparrows · **What happens:** wonder, peep, fly, grow, keep

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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 (I, sparrows), 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:pg27200:33:69
# text = I wonder if the sparrows will peep in at the windows as they fly? shall I grow faster here, and keep on all these ornaments summer and winter?"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	peep	peep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	compound	_	_
28	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **peep** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | the sparrows |  |  |  |  | at the windows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | present | sparrows *= sparrow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | shall | I |  |  | here |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | summer |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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