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title: While John slept, his companion flew behind the princess to the moun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: While John slept, his companion flew behind the princess to the mountain, and flogged her even harder than before; this time he had taken two rods with him. Who acts: John, companion. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 23

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While John slept, his companion flew behind the princess to the mountain, and flogged her even harder than before; this time he had taken two rods with him.

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**Who acts:** John, companion · **What happens:** sleep, fly, flog, take · **To what, where:** two rods

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, companion), 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:pg27200:198:23
# text = While John slept, his companion flew behind the princess to the mountain, and flogged her even harder than before; this time he had taken two rods with him.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	flogged	flog	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	ccomp	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **sleep** | past | John |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | past | John's companion |  |  |  |  | behind the princess to the mountain | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind princess=Location |
| 3 | **flog** | past | John's companion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect | John | two rods |  |  | time | with traveller | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme |

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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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