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title: As the executioner seized her by the hand, to lift her out of the ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 37

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As the executioner seized her by the hand, to lift her out of the cart, she hastily threw the eleven coats of mail over the swans, and they immediately became eleven handsome princes; but the youngest had a swan's wing, instead of an arm; for she had not been able to finish the last sleeve of the coat.

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**Who acts:** swan, pieces, youngest · **What happens:** seize, lift, throw, become, have, not be · **To what, where:** swan, cart, eleven coats, swans, eleven handsome princes, wing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (swan, pieces, youngest), 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:pg27200:210:37
# text = As the executioner seized her by the hand, to lift her out of the cart, she hastily threw the eleven coats of mail over the swans, and they immediately became eleven handsome princes; but the youngest had a swan's wing, instead of an arm; for she had not been able to finish the last sleeve of the coat.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
34	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	50	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	fixed	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
52	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
56	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	cop	_	_
57	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past |  | swan |  |  |  | as the executioner; by the hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **lift** | to-infinitive |  | swan |  | the cart |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out cart=Destination |
| 3 | **throw** | past | swan | the eleven coats of mail |  | the swans |  | hastily *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coat=Theme over swan=Destination |
| 4 | **become** | past | pieces *= piece* | eleven handsome princes |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | the youngest | a swan's wing |  |  |  | instead a arm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | swan |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **finish** | to-infinitive | swan *not said here* | the last sleeve of the coat |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sleeve=Eventuality |

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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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