---
title: As if stung by tarantulas, they sprang, laughed, rejoiced, as if in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As if stung by tarantulas, they sprang, laughed, rejoiced, as if in their ecstacies they were going to embrace all the world. Who acts: heads. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/61/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Dryad, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/) / 61

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 61

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As if stung by tarantulas, they sprang, laughed, rejoiced, as if in their ecstacies they were going to embrace all the world.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** heads · **What happens:** sting, spring, laugh, rejoice, go, embrace · **To what, where:** ecstacies, world

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (heads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:26:61
# text = As if stung by tarantulas, they sprang, laughed, rejoiced, as if in their ecstacies they were going to embrace all the world.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tarantulas	tarantula	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	ecstacies	ecstacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | participle | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by tarantulas | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **spring** | past | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rejoice** | past | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | heads *= head* |  |  | heads's ecstacies |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **embrace** | to-infinitive | heads *= head* *not said here* | all world |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Co-Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/60/)
- next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/62/)
- ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/)