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title: The other birds, too, now fell upon the sparrow and plucked off feat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The other birds, too, now fell upon the sparrow and plucked off feather after feather until she fell bleeding into the rose-bush. Who acts: other birds, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 87

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The other birds, too, now fell upon the sparrow and plucked off feather after feather until she fell bleeding into the rose-bush.

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**Who acts:** other birds, mother · **What happens:** fall, pluck off, bleed · **To what, where:** sparrow, feather, rose bush

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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 (other birds, mother), 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:pg27200:124:87
# text = The other birds, too, now fell upon the sparrow and plucked off feather after feather until she fell bleeding into the rose-bush.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the other birds |  |  | the sparrow | now |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sparrow=Location |
| 2 | **pluck off** | participle | the other birds *not said here* | feather |  |  | after feather |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **bleed** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  | the rose bush |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=Location |

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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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