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title: Yes, and I may as well tell you that you that each year, when I arri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, and I may as well tell you that you that each year, when I arrived a few days before you to repair the nest, and put everything in its place, I have spent a whole night flying here and there over the marshy lake, as if I had been an owl or a bat, but all to no purpose. Who acts: I, you, whole n
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 39

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Yes, and I may as well tell you that you that each year, when I arrived a few days before you to repair the nest, and put everything in its place, I have spent a whole night flying here and there over the marshy lake, as if I had been an owl or a bat, but all to no purpose.

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**Who acts:** I, you, whole night · **What happens:** tell, arrive, repair, put, spend, fly · **To what, where:** you, nest, everything, place, marshy lake, owl · **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 (I, you, whole night), 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:pg27200:85:39
# text = Yes, and I may as well tell you that you that each year, when I arrived a few days before you to repair the nest, and put everything in its place, I have spent a whole night flying here and there over the marshy lake, as if I had been an owl or a bat, but all to no purpose.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	8	cc	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	that	that	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	repair	repair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
31	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
43	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	conj	_	_
46	over	over	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
52	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
55	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	cop	_	_
56	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
58	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
62	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
63	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	66	det	_	_
64	to	to	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	66	det	_	_
66	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | may | I |  | you |  |  | that you; to all purpose | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **repair** | to-infinitive | you | the nest |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nest=Patient |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | I *not said here* | everything |  | nest's place |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in place=Destination |
| 5 | **spend** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | night |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fly** | gerund | a whole night *not said here* |  |  | the marshy lake; here |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lake=Location |
| 7 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I | a owl or a bat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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