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title: "I should like to know," said another, "If the swallow who flies so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I should like to know," said another, "If the swallow who flies so far in her many journeys to foreign lands, ever met with a better climate than this. Who acts: I, swallow, linen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 49

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"I should like to know," said another, "If the swallow who flies so far in her many journeys to foreign lands, ever met with a better climate than this.

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**Who acts:** I, swallow, linen · **What happens:** like, know, say, fly, meet, journey · **To what, where:** many journeys, foreign lands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, swallow, linen), 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:pg27200:8:49
# text = "I should like to know," said another, "If the swallow who flies so far in her many journeys to foreign lands, ever met with a better climate than this.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *in a quote* | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fly** *in a quote* | present | the swallow |  |  | linen's many journeys |  | to foreign lands; far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in journey=Location |
| 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | participle |  | foreign lands *not said here* |  |  | ever | with a better climate than this | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with climate=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **journey** *in a quote* |  | linen |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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