--- title: It is Polly's birthday," she added in a simpering tone, "and the lit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It is Polly's birthday," she added in a simpering tone, "and the little field-bird has come to offer his congratulations." Who acts: cage, Polly, little field bird, parrot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cage, Polly, little field bird, parrot), 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:pg27200:44:104 # text = It is Polly's birthday," she added in a simpering tone, "and the little field-bird has come to offer his congratulations." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 Polly Polly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 simpering simper VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 congratulations congratulation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | cage | Polly's birthday | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Polly | | | a simpering tone | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **simper** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | present · perfect | the little field bird | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **offer** | to-infinitive | the little field bird *not said here* | parrot's congratulations | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent congratulation=Theme | | 6 | **congratulate** | | parrot | | | | | | nom congratulation «communication intransitive»: poss=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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/105/) - ↑ back to [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/)