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title: Higher than ever I saw any one sit yet; and how he can swim!" she cr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Higher than ever I saw any one sit yet; and how he can swim!" she cried, as the Stork soared away through the air with outspread pinions. Who acts: I, speech, One, Stork. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 155

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Higher than ever I saw any one sit yet; and how he can swim!" she cried, as the Stork soared away through the air with outspread pinions.

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**Who acts:** I, speech, One, Stork · **What happens:** see, swim, cry, soar away · **To what, where:** one sit, air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, speech, One, Stork), 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:pg27200:194:155
# text = Higher than ever I saw any one sit yet; and how he can swim!" she cried, as the Stork soared away through the air with outspread pinions.
1	Higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sit	sit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Stork	Stork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	outspread	outspread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pinions	pinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | any one sit |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | can | speech |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **soar away** *in a quote* | past | the Stork |  |  | the air |  | with outspread pinions; away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through air=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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