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title: "No one will thank you for it," said stork-mamma; "but you are maste… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No one will thank you for it," said stork-mamma; "but you are master; and, excepting at breeding time, I have nothing to say." Who acts: one, stork mamma, you, mamma stork. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 11

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"No one will thank you for it," said stork-mamma; "but you are master; and, excepting at breeding time, I have nothing to say."

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**Who acts:** one, stork mamma, you, mamma stork · **What happens:** thank, say, be, except, have · **To what, where:** you, master, nothing · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, stork mamma, you, mamma stork), 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:pg27200:85:11
# text = "No one will thank you for it," said stork-mamma; "but you are master; and, excepting at breeding time, I have nothing to say."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | future | no one |  | you |  |  | for swan | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for it=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | stork mamma |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **except** *in a quote* | gerund | no one *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the mamma stork *= stork* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the mamma stork *= stork* *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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