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title: There the male and the female birds fly in separate flocks, which, t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There the male and the female birds fly in separate flocks, which, to speak candidly, I consider very unbecoming." Who acts: male, separate flocks, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 99

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There the male and the female birds fly in separate flocks, which, to speak candidly, I consider very unbecoming."

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**Who acts:** male, separate flocks, I · **What happens:** fly, speak, consider · **To what, where:** separate flocks · **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 (male, separate flocks, I), 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:pg27200:87:99
# text = There the male and the female birds fly in separate flocks, which, to speak candidly, I consider very unbecoming."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	candidly	candidly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	consider	consider	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	unbecoming	unbecoming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | the male and the female birds |  |  | separate flocks; there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flock=Location |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | separate flocks |  |  |  |  | candidly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consider** | present | I |  |  |  |  | unbecoming *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=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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