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title: And the learned and wise men assembled together, and talked a great… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the learned and wise men assembled together, and talked a great deal on every point; but the stork could make no sense out of anything they said; neither were there any good results from their consultations, either for the sick man, or for his daughter in the marshy heath. Who acts: learned men,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 81

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And the learned and wise men assembled together, and talked a great deal on every point; but the stork could make no sense out of anything they said; neither were there any good results from their consultations, either for the sick man, or for his daughter in the marshy heath.

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**Who acts:** learned men, stork, men, neither · **What happens:** learn, assemble, talk, make, say, be · **To what, where:** good results, great deal, point, sense, anything, there · **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 (learned men, stork, men, neither), 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:pg27200:84:81
# text = And the learned and wise men assembled together, and talked a great deal on every point; but the stork could make no sense out of anything they said; neither were there any good results from their consultations, either for the sick man, or for his daughter in the marshy heath.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
32	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	consultations	consultation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc:preconj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **assemble** | participle | the learned men | any good results from men's consultations |  | there |  | for the sick man or Egypt's daughter in the marshy heath; together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | past | the learned men *not said here* | a great deal |  | every point |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | could | the stork | no sense |  | anything |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Product |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | neither | there |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **consult** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom consultation «communication intransitive»: 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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