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title: "Ah, I said it would be so from the first," replied the stork-mamma;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ah, I said it would be so from the first," replied the stork-mamma; "but now think a little of your own family. Who acts: stork mamma, home. 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 the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 70

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"Ah, I said it would be so from the first," replied the stork-mamma; "but now think a little of your own family.

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**Who acts:** stork mamma, home · **What happens:** say, be, reply, think · **To what, where:** little · **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 mamma, home), 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:pg27200:83:70
# text = "Ah, I said it would be so from the first," replied the stork-mamma; "but now think a little of your own family.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the stork mamma *= mamma* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | would | home |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the stork mamma |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | the stork mamma *not said here* | a little |  |  | now |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot little=Theme |

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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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