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title: I and the young ones will carry them by turns during our flight acro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I and the young ones will carry them by turns during our flight across; and as we return, should they prove too heavy for us, we shall be sure to find plenty of places on the way in which we can conceal them till our next journey. Who acts: I, we, storks, our. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chri
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 8

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I and the young ones will carry them by turns during our flight across; and as we return, should they prove too heavy for us, we shall be sure to find plenty of places on the way in which we can conceal them till our next journey.

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**Who acts:** I, we, storks, our · **What happens:** carry, return, prove, be, find, conceal · **To what, where:** storks, plenty, way

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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, we, storks, our), 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:pg27200:85:8
# text = I and the young ones will carry them by turns during our flight across; and as we return, should they prove too heavy for us, we shall be sure to find plenty of places on the way in which we can conceal them till our next journey.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	across	across	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obl	_	_
43	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	till	till	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | future | I | storks *= stork* |  |  | during our flight | by turns; across *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **prove** | should | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | plenty of places |  | the way |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic |
| 6 | **conceal** | can | we | storks *= stork* |  | the way | till our next journey |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in which=Location |
| 7 | **journey** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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