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title: One morning, when the stork-papa was flying over the stem, he saw th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning, when the stork-papa was flying over the stem, he saw that the power of the sun's rays had caused the bud to open, and in the cup of the flower lay a charming child--a little maiden, looking as if she had just come out of a bath. Who acts: stork papa, papa, power, bud. A sentence of «Fai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 61

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One morning, when the stork-papa was flying over the stem, he saw that the power of the sun's rays had caused the bud to open, and in the cup of the flower lay a charming child--a little maiden, looking as if she had just come out of a bath.

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**Who acts:** stork papa, papa, power, bud, sun · **What happens:** fly, see, cause, open, lie, look · **To what, where:** stem, power, charming child, cup · **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 (stork papa, papa, power, bud), 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:pg27200:83:61
# text = One morning, when the stork-papa was flying over the stem, he saw that the power of the sun's rays had caused the bud to open, and in the cup of the flower lay a charming child--a little maiden, looking as if she had just come out of a bath.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
50	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	just	just	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
55	out	out	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past · progressive | the stork papa |  |  | the stem |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stem=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | papa |  |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cause** | past · perfect · passive |  | the power of the sun's rays |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | to-infinitive | the power of the sun's rays *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | past | papa *not said here* | a charming child |  | the cup of the flower |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | gerund | papa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **come out** | past · perfect | bud |  |  |  |  | of a bath; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon 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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