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title: "Here comes an egg-shell sailing along," said one of the boys; so th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Here comes an egg-shell sailing along," said one of the boys; so they stuck the darning-needle into the egg-shell. Who acts: egg shell, one, boys. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 56

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"Here comes an egg-shell sailing along," said one of the boys; so they stuck the darning-needle into the egg-shell.

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**Who acts:** egg shell, one, boys · **What happens:** come, sail, say, stick · **To what, where:** darning needle, egg shell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (egg shell, one, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:1400`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:21:56
# text = "Here comes an egg-shell sailing along," said one of the boys; so they stuck the darning-needle into the egg-shell.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
8	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
9	along	along	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	darning	darning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | a egg shell |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sail** *in a quote* | gerund | a egg shell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one of the boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stick** | past | boys *= boy* | the darning needle |  | the egg shell |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme into shell=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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