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title: “Kribledy, krabledy--plump!” down fell somebody: it was a wooden bir… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kribledy, krabledy--plump!” down fell somebody: it was a wooden bird, the popinjay used at the shooting-matches at Prastoe. Who acts: Kribledy, encounter. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 22

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“Kribledy, krabledy--plump!” down fell somebody: it was a wooden bird, the popinjay used at the shooting-matches at Prastoe.

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**Who acts:** Kribledy, encounter · **What happens:** fall, be, use · **To what, where:** somebody, wooden bird, popinjay, shooting matches

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kribledy, encounter), 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:pg1597:25:22
# text = “Kribledy, krabledy--plump!” down fell somebody: it was a wooden bird, the popinjay used at the shooting-matches at Prastoe.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kribledy	Kribledy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	krabledy	krabledy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	plump	plump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	popinjay	popinjay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Prastoe	Prastoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Kribledy and krabledy | somebody |  |  |  | down *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient somebody=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | past | encounter | a wooden bird and the popinjay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | the popinjay *not said here* |  | the shooting matches at Prastoe |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «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:** «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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