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title: "Yes, I know," said the stork-papa; "but to-morrow I can easily plac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, I know," said the stork-papa; "but to-morrow I can easily place myself on the edge of the open cupola, when the learned and wise men assemble to consult on the state of the sick man; perhaps they may come a little nearer to the truth." Who acts: stork papa, learned men, men. A sentence of «Fai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 80

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"Yes, I know," said the stork-papa; "but to-morrow I can easily place myself on the edge of the open cupola, when the learned and wise men assemble to consult on the state of the sick man; perhaps they may come a little nearer to the truth."

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**Who acts:** stork papa, learned men, men · **What happens:** know, say, place, learn, assemble, consult · **To what, where:** stork papa, edge, state · **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 2. 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, learned men, men), 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:pg27200:84:80
# text = "Yes, I know," said the stork-papa; "but to-morrow I can easily place myself on the edge of the open cupola, when the learned and wise men assemble to consult on the state of the sick man; perhaps they may come a little nearer to the truth."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
23	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cupola	cupola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	assemble	assemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	_
55	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	52	xcomp	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the stork papa *= papa* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the stork papa |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **place** *in a quote* | can | the stork papa *= papa* | the stork papa *= papa* |  | the edge of the open cupola |  | to morrow; easily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **assemble** *in a quote* | present | the learned men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **consult** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the learned men *not said here* |  |  | the state of the sick man |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come** *in a quote* | may | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | near, perhaps *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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