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title: The storks might have been found in the land of Egypt, where the sun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The storks might have been found in the land of Egypt, where the sun's rays shone forth bright and warm, as it does here at midsummer. Who acts: rays, sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 41

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The storks might have been found in the land of Egypt, where the sun's rays shone forth bright and warm, as it does here at midsummer.

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**Who acts:** rays, sun · **What happens:** find, shine, do, ray · **To what, where:** storks, land, midsummer

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, sun), 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:pg27200:84:41
# text = The storks might have been found in the land of Egypt, where the sun's rays shone forth bright and warm, as it does here at midsummer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | might · perfect · passive |  | the storks |  | the land of Egypt |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **shine** | past | the sun's rays |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present | sun |  |  | midsummer; here |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **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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