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title: Then the boy and the girl clapped their hands, and troops of birds c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the boy and the girl clapped their hands, and troops of birds came flying by, no one knew from whence, and they all twittered and chirped, singing "Spring has come!" Who acts: boy, troops, one, Spring. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Ye
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 75

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Then the boy and the girl clapped their hands, and troops of birds came flying by, no one knew from whence, and they all twittered and chirped, singing "Spring has come!"

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**Who acts:** boy, troops, one, Spring · **What happens:** clap, come, fly by, know, twitter, chirp · **To what, where:** hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, troops, one, Spring), 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:pg27200:214:75
# text = Then the boy and the girl clapped their hands, and troops of birds came flying by, no one knew from whence, and they all twittered and chirped, singing "Spring has come!"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	twittered	twitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	chirped	chirp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clap** | past | the boy and the girl | boy's hands |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | troops of birds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly by** | gerund | troops of birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **twitter** | past | troops |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **chirp** | past | troops *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | troops *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Spring |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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