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title: "You enter into particulars too much," said the mamma stork, "and th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "You enter into particulars too much," said the mamma stork, "and the eggs may take cold; I cannot bear such suspense as this." Who acts: You, mamma stork, eggs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 31

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"You enter into particulars too much," said the mamma stork, "and the eggs may take cold; I cannot bear such suspense as this."

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**Who acts:** You, mamma stork, eggs · **What happens:** enter, say, take, not bear · **To what, where:** particulars, cold, such suspense · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, mamma stork, eggs), 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:pg27200:83:31
# text = "You enter into particulars too much," said the mamma stork, "and the eggs may take cold; I cannot bear such suspense as this."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	particulars	particular	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	suspense	suspense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  | particulars |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into particular=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mamma stork |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | may | the eggs | cold |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **bear** *in a quote* | can | the mamma stork *= stork* | such suspense |  |  |  | as this | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspense=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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