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title: “Here are two children, mournful very, Seeing neither bridge nor fer… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Here are two children, mournful very, Seeing neither bridge nor ferry; Take us upon your white back, And row us over, quack, quack!” Who acts: two children. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 124

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“Here are two children, mournful very, Seeing neither bridge nor ferry; Take us upon your white back, And row us over, quack, quack!”

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**Who acts:** two children · **What happens:** be, see, take, row over · **To what, where:** bridge, us

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two children), 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:pg503:35:124
# text = “Here are two children, mournful very, Seeing neither bridge nor ferry; Take us upon your white back, And row us over, quack, quack!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	row	row	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | two children |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | gerund |  | neither bridge nor ferry |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridge=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | us |  |  | upon your white back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination |
| 4 | **row over** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  | quack and quack *obl*; over *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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