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title: The fish swam to and fro, making the most wonderful movements, but a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fish swam to and fro, making the most wonderful movements, but at last he became quite still. Who acts: fish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 60

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The fish swam to and fro, making the most wonderful movements, but at last he became quite still.

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**Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** swim, fro, make, become · **To what, where:** wonderful movements, last

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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:pg27200:192:60
# text = The fish swam to and fro, making the most wonderful movements, but at last he became quite still.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | the fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive | the fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the fish *not said here* | the wonderful movements |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset movement=Product |
| 4 | **become** | past | fish |  |  | last | still |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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