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title: Since that time the ostrich and his race have never been able to ris… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Since that time the ostrich and his race have never been able to rise in the air; they can only fly terror-stricken along the ground, or run round and round in narrow circles. Who acts: ostrich, ostriches, angel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh Kin
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 37

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Since that time the ostrich and his race have never been able to rise in the air; they can only fly terror-stricken along the ground, or run round and round in narrow circles.

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**Who acts:** ostrich, ostriches, angel · **What happens:** not be, rise, fly, stricken, run, race · **To what, where:** air, terror, narrow circles

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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 (ostrich, ostriches, angel), 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:pg27200:88:37
# text = Since that time the ostrich and his race have never been able to rise in the air; they can only fly terror-stricken along the ground, or run round and round in narrow circles.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
23	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	stricken	stricken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	along	along	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	round	round	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	round	round	ADV	RB	_	32	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present · perfect | the ostrich and angel's race |  |  |  | time | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | to-infinitive | the ostrich and angel's race *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
| 3 | **fly** | can | ostriches *= ostrich* | terror |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location terror=Theme |
| 4 | **stricken** | participle |  | terror *not said here* |  |  |  | along the ground | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** | present | ostriches *= ostrich* *not said here* |  |  | narrow circles |  | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory |
| 6 | **race** |  | angel |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: 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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