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title: “They are all mine,” said she, at the same time seizing one that was… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “They are all mine,” said she, at the same time seizing one that was next to her by the legs and shaking it so that its wings fluttered. Who acts: rabbits, maiden, same time, that. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 28

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“They are all mine,” said she, at the same time seizing one that was next to her by the legs and shaking it so that its wings fluttered.

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**Who acts:** rabbits, maiden, same time, that, wings · **What happens:** be, say, seize, shake, flutter · **To what, where:** maiden, one, little · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbits, maiden, same time, that), 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:pg1597:14:28
# text = “They are all mine,” said she, at the same time seizing one that was next to her by the legs and shaking it so that its wings fluttered.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	next	next	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | rabbits *= rabbit* | maiden |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | maiden |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund | the same time by the legs *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  | maiden |  |  | next *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shake** | gerund | maiden *not said here* | little |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **flutter** | participle | little's wings |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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