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title: "Craw-craw! away-away from here!" cried the great black birds, and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Craw-craw! away-away from here!" cried the great black birds, and they flew away; but on the following day they came back, for they were at home here. Who acts: Craw craw, birds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 41

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"Craw-craw! away-away from here!" cried the great black birds, and they flew away; but on the following day they came back, for they were at home here.

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**Who acts:** Craw craw, birds · **What happens:** cry, fly away, follow, come back, be · **To what, where:** great black birds

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Craw craw, birds), 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:pg27200:149:41
# text = "Craw-craw! away-away from here!" cried the great black birds, and they flew away; but on the following day they came back, for they were at home here.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Craw	craw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	craw	craw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Craw craw | the great black birds |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 2 | **fly away** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come back** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  | here |  | for home | 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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