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title: The first stork pair who related it lived at the time it happened, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The first stork pair who related it lived at the time it happened, and had their summer residence on the rafters of the Viking's house, which stood near the wild moorlands of Wendsyssell; that is, to speak more correctly, the great moorheath, high up in the north of Jutland, by the Skjagen peak. Who
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 6

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The first stork pair who related it lived at the time it happened, and had their summer residence on the rafters of the Viking's house, which stood near the wild moorlands of Wendsyssell; that is, to speak more correctly, the great moorheath, high up in the north of Jutland, by the Skjagen peak.

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**Who acts:** first stork pair, it, house · **What happens:** relate, live, happen, have, stand, be · **To what, where:** pair, time, summer residence, rafters, wild moorlands

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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 (first stork pair, it, house), 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:pg27200:83:6
# text = The first stork pair who related it lived at the time it happened, and had their summer residence on the rafters of the Viking's house, which stood near the wild moorlands of Wendsyssell; that is, to speak more correctly, the great moorheath, high up in the north of Jutland, by the Skjagen peak.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rafters	rafter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	moorlands	moorland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Wendsyssell	Wendsyssell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	obl	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
43	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
44	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	moorheath	moorheath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
51	up	up	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	by	by	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past | the first stork pair | pair |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the first stork pair |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | past | it | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | the first stork pair *not said here* | thousands's summer residence |  | the rafters of the Viking's house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residence=Patient |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the Viking's house |  |  | the wild moorlands of Wendsyssell |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near moorland=Location |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | that *obl*; the great moorheath *obl*; correctly, speak *property* | tree rules |

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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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