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title: "And now we can converse with pleasure," said the stork-papa; "we ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "And now we can converse with pleasure," said the stork-papa; "we can understand one another, although the beaks of birds are so different in shape. Who acts: we, stork papa, beaks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 45

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"And now we can converse with pleasure," said the stork-papa; "we can understand one another, although the beaks of birds are so different in shape.

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**Who acts:** we, stork papa, beaks · **What happens:** converse, say, understand, be · **To what, where:** one, shape · **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 (we, stork papa, beaks), 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:pg27200:87:45
# text = "And now we can converse with pleasure," said the stork-papa; "we can understand one another, although the beaks of birds are so different in shape.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	converse	converse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **converse** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  | now | with pleasure | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pleasure=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the stork papa |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **understand** *in a quote* | can | we | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the beaks of birds |  |  | shape |  | different *property* | 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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