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title: Each time it came back, as it touched the earth, it gave a higher le… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each time it came back, as it touched the earth, it gave a higher leap than before, either because it longed to fly upwards, or from having a Spanish cork in its body. Who acts: more. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 22

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Each time it came back, as it touched the earth, it gave a higher leap than before, either because it longed to fly upwards, or from having a Spanish cork in its body.

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**Who acts:** more · **What happens:** come back, touch, give, long, fly, have · **To what, where:** earth, higher leap, Spanish cork, body

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more), 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:pg27200:195:22
# text = Each time it came back, as it touched the earth, it gave a higher leap than before, either because it longed to fly upwards, or from having a Spanish cork in its body.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc:preconj	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | more |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | past | more | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | more | a higher leap |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme |
| 4 | **long** | past | more |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upwards *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | more *not said here* | a Spanish cork |  | more's body |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=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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