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title: And while the daisy was still thinking, the lark came flying down, c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And while the daisy was still thinking, the lark came flying down, crying "Tweet," but not to the peonies and tulips--no, into the grass to the poor daisy. Who acts: daisy, lark. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 16

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And while the daisy was still thinking, the lark came flying down, crying "Tweet," but not to the peonies and tulips--no, into the grass to the poor daisy.

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**Who acts:** daisy, lark · **What happens:** think, come, fly down, cry · **To what, where:** grass, Tweet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daisy, lark), 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:pg27200:20:16
# text = And while the daisy was still thinking, the lark came flying down, crying "Tweet," but not to the peonies and tulips--no, into the grass to the poor daisy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	peonies	peony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the daisy |  |  |  | still |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the lark |  |  | the grass to the poor daisy |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly down** | gerund | the lark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the lark *not said here* | Tweet but the peonies and tulips |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tweet=Topic |

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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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