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title: Then they all got excited; they hit out with their wings, pecked wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they all got excited; they hit out with their wings, pecked with their beaks, and flop! one after another was thrown out of the nest. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 99

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Then they all got excited; they hit out with their wings, pecked with their beaks, and flop! one after another was thrown out of the nest.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** get, hit out, peck, flop, throw · **To what, where:** one, another, nest

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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 (children), 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:pg27200:124:99
# text = Then they all got excited; they hit out with their wings, pecked with their beaks, and flop! one after another was thrown out of the nest.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	pecked	peck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	flop	flop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
23	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | then | excited *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hit out** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | with children's wings | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with wing=Instrument |
| 3 | **peck** | participle | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with children's beaks | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with beak=Instrument |
| 4 | **flop** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | past · passive |  | another |  | the nest |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme out nest=Initial\_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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