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title: The storks were gone; not a guest could be seen; no bridegroom--all… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The storks were gone; not a guest could be seen; no bridegroom--all in those few short moments seemed to have died. Who acts: storks, all. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 78

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The storks were gone; not a guest could be seen; no bridegroom--all in those few short moments seemed to have died.

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**Who acts:** storks, all · **What happens:** be, not see, seem, die · **To what, where:** guest

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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 (storks, all), 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:pg27200:88:78
# text = The storks were gone; not a guest could be seen; no bridegroom--all in those few short moments seemed to have died.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the storks |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **see** | could · passive |  | a guest |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **seem** | past | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive · perfect | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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