--- title: Polly did not answer a single word, he continued to swing proudly to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Polly did not answer a single word, he continued to swing proudly to and fro; but a beautiful canary, who had been brought from his own warm, fragrant fatherland, the summer previous, began to sing as loud as he could. Who acts: Polly, parrot, beautiful canary. 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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 (Polly, parrot, beautiful canary), 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:pg27200:44:105 # text = Polly did not answer a single word, he continued to swing proudly to and fro; but a beautiful canary, who had been brought from his own warm, fragrant fatherland, the summer previous, began to sing as loud as he could. 1 Polly Polly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 proudly proudly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 canary canary NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 29 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 30 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 fragrant fragrant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 fatherland fatherland NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 previous previous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 39 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 as as ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Polly | a single word | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | | 2 | **continue** | past | parrot | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **swing** | to-infinitive | parrot *not said here* | | | | | proudly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **fro** | infinitive | parrot *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | | a beautiful canary | | parrot's own warm fragrant fatherland | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from fatherland=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **begin** | past | a beautiful canary | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | a beautiful canary *not said here* | | | | | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/106/) - ↑ back to [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/)