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title: They received the name of Varangians. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They received the name of Varangians. Who acts: wings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 5

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They received the name of Varangians.

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**Who acts:** wings · **What happens:** receive, name · **To what, where:** name, Varangians

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings), 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:pg27200:187:5
# text = They received the name of Varangians.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Varangians	Varangian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | wings *= wing* | the name of Varangians |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | Varangians |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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