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title: The Danish and the Swedish flags wave, and Danes and Swedes say, "Go… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Danish and the Swedish flags wave, and Danes and Swedes say, "Good-day," and "Thank you" to each other, not with cannons, but with a friendly shake of the hand; and they exchange white bread and biscuits with each other, because foreign articles taste the best. Who acts: Danish, Danes, foreign a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 5

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The Danish and the Swedish flags wave, and Danes and Swedes say, "Good-day," and "Thank you" to each other, not with cannons, but with a friendly shake of the hand; and they exchange white bread and biscuits with each other, because foreign articles taste the best.

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**Who acts:** Danish, Danes, foreign articles · **What happens:** wave, say, thank, exchange, taste · **To what, where:** you, white bread, best · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danish, Danes, foreign articles), 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:pg27200:50:5
# text = The Danish and the Swedish flags wave, and Danes and Swedes say, "Good-day," and "Thank you" to each other, not with cannons, but with a friendly shake of the hand; and they exchange white bread and biscuits with each other, because foreign articles taste the best.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wave	wave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Swedes	Swede	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	23	obl	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	cannons	cannon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	shake	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	exchange	exchange	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
46	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	45	obl	_	_
52	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	taste	taste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **wave** | present | the Danish |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Danes and Swedes |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | Danes and Swedes *not said here* |  | you |  |  | to each; with cannons | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **exchange** | present | Danes *= dane* | white bread and biscuits |  |  |  | with each | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent bread=Theme with each=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **taste** | present | foreign articles | the best |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme good=Attribute |

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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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