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title: The pigeons strutted round one another, puffed out their chests migh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The pigeons strutted round one another, puffed out their chests mightily, and had their own private views and opinions. Who acts: pigeons. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 135

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The pigeons strutted round one another, puffed out their chests mightily, and had their own private views and opinions.

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**Who acts:** pigeons · **What happens:** strut, puff out, have, view · **To what, where:** pigeons, chests, own private views

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigeons), 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:pg27200:124:135
# text = The pigeons strutted round one another, puffed out their chests mightily, and had their own private views and opinions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	strutted	strut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	puffed	puff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	chests	chest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	mightily	mightily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	opinions	opinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strut** | participle |  | the pigeons *not said here* |  |  |  | round one | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round one=Trajectory |
| 2 | **puff out** | participle | the pigeons | pigeons's chests |  |  |  | mightily *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Source |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | pigeons's own private views and opinions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient |
| 4 | **view** |  | pigeons *= pigeon* |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** «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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