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title: "Pop, pop," sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead amo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Pop, pop," sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood. " Who acts: Pop, two wild geese. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 74

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"Pop, pop," sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood. "

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**Who acts:** Pop, two wild geese · **What happens:** sound, fall, ting · **To what, where:** air, rushes, water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pop, two wild geese), 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:pg27200:201:74
# text = "Pop, pop," sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	tinged	ting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | Pop and pop |  |  | the air |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the two wild geese |  |  | the rushes |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among rush=Location |
| 3 | **ting** | past · passive |  | the water |  |  |  | with blood | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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