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title: I am the raven-mother; I am the raven-mother," each raven croaked, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I am the raven-mother; I am the raven-mother," each raven croaked, and Anne Lisbeth felt that the name also applied to her; and she fancied she should be transformed into a black bird, and have to cry as they cried, if she did not dig the grave. Who acts: I, Anne, name, crosses. A sentence of «Fairy
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 155

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I am the raven-mother; I am the raven-mother," each raven croaked, and Anne Lisbeth felt that the name also applied to her; and she fancied she should be transformed into a black bird, and have to cry as they cried, if she did not dig the grave.

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**Who acts:** I, Anne, name, crosses · **What happens:** be, croak, feel, apply, fancy, transform · **To what, where:** raven mother, raven, Anne, grave · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Anne, name, crosses), 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:pg27200:5:155
# text = I am the raven-mother; I am the raven-mother," each raven croaked, and Anne Lisbeth felt that the name also applied to her; and she fancied she should be transformed into a black bird, and have to cry as they cried, if she did not dig the grave.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	croaked	croak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	applied	apply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	ccomp	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the raven mother and the raven mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | the raven mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **croak** *in a quote* | participle |  | each raven *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **apply** *in a quote* | past | the name |  | raven |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fancy** *in a quote* | past | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **transform** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | Anne |  |  |  | into a black bird *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into bird=Result |
| 8 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | crosses *= cross* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **not** **dig** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · do-support | Anne | the grave |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme |

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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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