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title: "The storks are come," was said in the great house on the banks of t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The storks are come," was said in the great house on the banks of the Nile, where the lord lay in the hall on his downy cushions, covered with a leopard skin, scarcely alive, yet not dead, waiting and hoping for the lotus-flower from the deep moorland in the far north. Who acts: lord. A sentence of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 121

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"The storks are come," was said in the great house on the banks of the Nile, where the lord lay in the hall on his downy cushions, covered with a leopard skin, scarcely alive, yet not dead, waiting and hoping for the lotus-flower from the deep moorland in the far north.

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**Who acts:** lord · **What happens:** come, say, lie, cover, wait, hope · **To what, where:** storks, great house, hall, downy cushions, deep moorland · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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:pg27200:87:121
# text = "The storks are come," was said in the great house on the banks of the Nile, where the lord lay in the hall on his downy cushions, covered with a leopard skin, scarcely alive, yet not dead, waiting and hoping for the lotus-flower from the deep moorland in the far north.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	downy	downy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	conj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the storks |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  |  |  | the great house on the banks of the Nile |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the lord |  |  | the hall |  | on lord's downy cushions | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | lord's downy cushions *not said here* |  |  |  | with a leopard skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with skin=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hope** | gerund |  |  |  | the deep moorland in the far north |  | for the lotus flower | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for flower=Theme |

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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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