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title: One of the wisest of them said, as the stork-mamma also said, "That… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the wisest of them said, as the stork-mamma also said, "That in some way she would, after all, manage to succeed;" and so at last they comforted themselves with this hope, and would wait patiently; in fact, they could do nothing better. Who acts: stork mamma, papa. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 3

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One of the wisest of them said, as the stork-mamma also said, "That in some way she would, after all, manage to succeed;" and so at last they comforted themselves with this hope, and would wait patiently; in fact, they could do nothing better.

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**Who acts:** stork mamma, papa · **What happens:** say, manage, succeed, comfort, wait, do · **To what, where:** papa, nothing, fact · **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 (stork mamma, papa), 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:pg27200:85:3
# text = One of the wisest of them said, as the stork-mamma also said, "That in some way she would, after all, manage to succeed;" and so at last they comforted themselves with this hope, and would wait patiently; in fact, they could do nothing better.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	ccomp	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
47	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	54	obj	_	_
56	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the wisest of papa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the stork mamma |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **manage** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | after all |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **succeed** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **comfort** | past | papa | papa |  |  |  | with this hope; last *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 6 | **wait** | would |  |  |  |  |  | patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **do** | could | papa | nothing |  | fact |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

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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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