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title: The lark rose up again, singing gaily, and I withdrew behind the red… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lark rose up again, singing gaily, and I withdrew behind the red morning clouds." Who acts: lark, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 23

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The lark rose up again, singing gaily, and I withdrew behind the red morning clouds."

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**Who acts:** lark, I · **What happens:** rise up, sing, withdraw · **To what, where:** red morning clouds

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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, I), 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:pg27200:101:23
# text = The lark rose up again, singing gaily, and I withdrew behind the red morning clouds."
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	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	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 |  |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the lark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gaily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past | I |  |  | the red morning clouds |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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