--- title: The Fowl who marched at the head of them had a long sight, and she s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The Fowl who marched at the head of them had a long sight, and she spied the Caterpillar on the green leaf, and pecked at it, so that the Caterpillar fell on the ground, where it twisted and writhed. Who acts: Fowl, head, Caterpillar, sight. 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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 (Fowl, head, Caterpillar, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:194:87 # text = The Fowl who marched at the head of them had a long sight, and she spied the Caterpillar on the green leaf, and pecked at it, so that the Caterpillar fell on the ground, where it twisted and writhed. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Fowl Fowl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 marched march VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 spied spy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Caterpillar Caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 pecked peck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 34 mark _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Caterpillar Caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 twisted twist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 writhed writhe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **march** | past | the Fowl | | | the head | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at head=Trajectory | | 2 | **have** | past | the head *not said here* | a long sight | | | | of people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | | 3 | **spy** | past | Fowl | the Caterpillar | | the green leaf | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caterpillar=Stimulus | | 4 | **peck** | participle | | | | | | at sight | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient | | 5 | **fall** | past | the Caterpillar | | | the ground | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | | 6 | **twist** | past | sight | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **writhe** | past | sight *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/88/) - ↑ back to [The Toad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/)