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title: One evening the other large birds of the forest said to the ostrich,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening the other large birds of the forest said to the ostrich, "Brother, shall we fly to the river to-morrow morning to drink, God willing?" and the ostrich answered, "I will." Who acts: other large birds, we, ostrich. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 34

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One evening the other large birds of the forest said to the ostrich, "Brother, shall we fly to the river to-morrow morning to drink, God willing?" and the ostrich answered, "I will."

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**Who acts:** other large birds, we, ostrich · **What happens:** say, fly, drink, answer · **To what, where:** ostrich, willing · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other large birds, we, ostrich), 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:pg27200:88:34
# text = One evening the other large birds of the forest said to the ostrich, "Brother, shall we fly to the river to-morrow morning to drink, God willing?" and the ostrich answered, "I will."
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the other large birds of the forest |  | the ostrich and Brother |  | evening |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ostrich=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  | morning | to the river *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result |
| 3 | **drink** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | willing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent willing=Patient |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the ostrich |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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