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title: The Portuguese awoke too, and rushed over to the other side: in so d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Portuguese awoke too, and rushed over to the other side: in so doing she trod upon the little singing-bird. Who acts: Portuguese. 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 77

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The Portuguese awoke too, and rushed over to the other side: in so doing she trod upon the little singing-bird.

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**Who acts:** Portuguese · **What happens:** awake, rush over, do, tread

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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 (Portuguese), 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:pg27200:145:77
# text = The Portuguese awoke too, and rushed over to the other side: in so doing she trod upon the little singing-bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | the Portuguese |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rush over** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the other side *result*; over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tread** | past | Portuguese |  |  |  |  | upon the little singing bird | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bird=Trajectory |

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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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