--- title: At length he sunk lower and lower, with outstretched wings, flapping… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: At length he sunk lower and lower, with outstretched wings, flapping them in vain, till his feet touched the rigging of the ship, and he slided from the sails to the deck, and stood before them. Who acts: wing, feet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wing, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:134:69 # text = At length he sunk lower and lower, with outstretched wings, flapping them in vain, till his feet touched the rigging of the ship, and he slided from the sails to the deck, and stood before them. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sunk sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 outstretched outstretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 flapping flap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 till till SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rigging rigging NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 slided slid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sails sail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 40 before before ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sink** | past | wing | | | length | | with outstretched wings; low *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wing=Instrument | | 2 | **outstretch** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **flap** | gerund | wing *not said here* | storks *= stork* | | | | in vain | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in vain=Topic | | 4 | **touch** | past | wing's feet | the rigging of the ship | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rigging=Co-Theme | | 5 | **slid** | past | wing | | | the sails | | to the deck | tree rules | | 6 | **stand** | past | wing *not said here* | | | | before storks *= stork* | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/70/) - ↑ back to [Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/)