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title: The lark rose up carolling from the field, twittering her morning la… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lark rose up carolling from the field, twittering her morning lay over the coffin, and presently perched upon it, picking with her beak at the straw covering, as though she would tear it up. Who acts: lark. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 22

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The lark rose up carolling from the field, twittering her morning lay over the coffin, and presently perched upon it, picking with her beak at the straw covering, as though she would tear it up.

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**Who acts:** lark · **What happens:** rise up, carol, twitter, perch, pick, tear up · **To what, where:** field, morning lay, coffin

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:6982`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:101:22
# text = The lark rose up carolling from the field, twittering her morning lay over the coffin, and presently perched upon it, picking with her beak at the straw covering, as though she would tear it up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	carolling	carol	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	twittering	twitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	perched	perch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | the lark |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carol** *speech: other* | gerund | the lark *not said here* |  |  | the field |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **twitter** | gerund | the lark *not said here* | lark's morning lay |  | the coffin |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lay=Theme |
| 4 | **perch** | past | the lark *not said here* |  |  | coffin |  | presently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |
| 5 | **pick** | gerund | the lark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with lark's beak; at the straw covering | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at covering=Patient |
| 6 | **tear up** | would | lark | coffin |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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