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title: Many more of them came swooping down; they thought it must be some n… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Many more of them came swooping down; they thought it must be some new bird, and he soon had a goodly company of followers. Who acts: Many, birds, flight, invention. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 161

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Many more of them came swooping down; they thought it must be some new bird, and he soon had a goodly company of followers.

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**Who acts:** Many, birds, flight, invention · **What happens:** come, swoop down, think, be, have · **To what, where:** new bird, goodly company · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, birds, flight, invention), 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:pg27200:143:161
# text = Many more of them came swooping down; they thought it must be some new bird, and he soon had a goodly company of followers.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	swooping	swoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Many |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swoop down** | gerund | Many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | must | flight | some new bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | invention | a goodly company of followers |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient |

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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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