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title: The cuckoos and the nightingale are already gone, and I heard the qu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The cuckoos and the nightingale are already gone, and I heard the quails say they should go too as soon as the wind was favorable. Who acts: cuckoos, I, quails, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 72

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The cuckoos and the nightingale are already gone, and I heard the quails say they should go too as soon as the wind was favorable.

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**Who acts:** cuckoos, I, quails, wind · **What happens:** be, hear, say, go · **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 (cuckoos, I, quails, wind), 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:pg27200:83:72
# text = The cuckoos and the nightingale are already gone, and I heard the quails say they should go too as soon as the wind was favorable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	quails	quail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	favorable	favorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the cuckoos and the nightingale |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the quails |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | should | quails *= quail* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | favorable *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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