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title: The cat was after him, but he had escaped from her with a broken win… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The cat was after him, but he had escaped from her with a broken wing, and so came tumbling into the yard. " Who acts: cat. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 11

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The cat was after him, but he had escaped from her with a broken wing, and so came tumbling into the yard. "

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**Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** be, escape, break, come, tumble · **To what, where:** cat

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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:pg27200:145:11
# text = The cat was after him, but he had escaped from her with a broken wing, and so came tumbling into the yard. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | after bird |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** | past · perfect | cat | the cat *not said here* |  |  |  | from crowing; with a broken wing | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cat=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | the cat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tumble** | gerund | the cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into yard=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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