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title: Then the boy recovered, his cheeks again grew rosy, he jumped down f… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the boy recovered, his cheeks again grew rosy, he jumped down from the lap where he was sitting, and danced round the kind old poet. Who acts: boy, cheeks. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 17

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Then the boy recovered, his cheeks again grew rosy, he jumped down from the lap where he was sitting, and danced round the kind old poet.

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**Who acts:** boy, cheeks · **What happens:** recover, grow, jump down, sit, dance · **To what, where:** lap, kind old poet

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, cheeks), 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:pg1597:26:17
# text = Then the boy recovered, his cheeks again grew rosy, he jumped down from the lap where he was sitting, and danced round the kind old poet.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
25	round	round	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **recover** | past | the boy |  |  |  | then |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | boy's cheeks |  |  |  | again | rosy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **jump down** | past | boy |  |  | the lap |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lap=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dance** | participle | boy *not said here* |  |  | the kind old poet |  |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round poet=Trajectory |

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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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