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title: "See what a hurry they are in," said Little Claus, "they are longing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "See what a hurry they are in," said Little Claus, "they are longing to get down again." Who acts: birds, Little. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 205

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"See what a hurry they are in," said Little Claus, "they are longing to get down again."

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**Who acts:** birds, Little · **What happens:** see, be, say, long, get down · **To what, where:** hurry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, Little), 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:pg27200:71:205
# text = "See what a hurry they are in," said Little Claus, "they are longing to get down again."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
13	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | what hurry |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hurry=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | birds *= bird* | what hurry *not said here* |  |  |  | in *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **long** *in a quote* | present · progressive | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **get down** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* |  |  |  | again | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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