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title: Quicker, however, than the breeze, the withered, sallow arms of the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Quicker, however, than the breeze, the withered, sallow arms of the beggars were thrust in, accompanied by the eternal whine of “Miserabili, miserabili, excellenza!” Who acts: Quicker, Miserabili. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its depend
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 96

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Quicker, however, than the breeze, the withered, sallow arms of the beggars were thrust in, accompanied by the eternal whine of “Miserabili, miserabili, excellenza!”

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**Who acts:** Quicker, Miserabili · **What happens:** wither, be, accompany, whine · **To what, where:** thrust

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quicker, Miserabili), 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:pg1597:9:96
# text = Quicker, however, than the breeze, the withered, sallow arms of the beggars were thrust in, accompanied by the eternal whine of “Miserabili, miserabili, excellenza!”
1	Quicker	Quicker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	sallow	sallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	whine	whine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Miserabili	Miserabili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	miserabili	miserabili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	excellenza	excellenza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Quicker | thrust |  |  |  | than the breeze; however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accompany** | participle |  | thrust *not said here* |  |  |  | by the eternal whine of Miserabili and miserabili and excellenza | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by whine=Destination |
| 4 | **whine** |  | Miserabili |  |  |  |  |  | nom whine «communication intransitive»: of=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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