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title: The flag of the corporation fluttered before it, and the journeymen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The flag of the corporation fluttered before it, and the journeymen and apprentices shouted "Hurrah." A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 140

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The flag of the corporation fluttered before it, and the journeymen and apprentices shouted "Hurrah."

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**What happens:** flutter, shout · **To what, where:** corporation, house

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:177:140
# text = The flag of the corporation fluttered before it, and the journeymen and apprentices shouted "Hurrah."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	apprentices	apprentice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flutter** | participle |  | the corporation *not said here* |  | house |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Location |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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