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title: Then it began to descend much more rapidly than the rabbit had done,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it began to descend much more rapidly than the rabbit had done, made somersaults in the air, and felt itself quite young and unfettered, although it was half full of wine. Who acts: roof. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 135

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Then it began to descend much more rapidly than the rabbit had done, made somersaults in the air, and felt itself quite young and unfettered, although it was half full of wine.

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**Who acts:** roof · **What happens:** begin, descend, do, make, feel, unfetter · **To what, where:** made somersaults, air, rabbit, roof

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof), 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:pg27200:13:135
# text = Then it began to descend much more rapidly than the rabbit had done, made somersaults in the air, and felt itself quite young and unfettered, although it was half full of wine.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	descend	descend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	unfettered	unfetter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	33	advmod	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | roof |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **descend** | to-infinitive | roof *not said here* | made somersaults |  | the air |  | rapidly *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location somersault=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | the rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **feel** | past |  | roof |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 6 | **unfetter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | roof |  |  |  |  | of wine; full, half *property* | tree rules |

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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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