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title: "But they have learned swimming of us," remarked a well-educated Cod… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "But they have learned swimming of us," remarked a well-educated Codling. " Who acts: advantages, educated Codling. 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.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 97

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"But they have learned swimming of us," remarked a well-educated Codling. "

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**Who acts:** advantages, educated Codling · **What happens:** learn, remark, educate, swim · **To what, where:** swimming, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (advantages, educated Codling), 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:pg27200:26:97
# text = "But they have learned swimming of us," remarked a well-educated Codling. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	educated	educate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	Codling	codling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect | advantages *= advantage* | swimming of us |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimming=Topic |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | a educated Codling |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **educate** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **swim** *in a quote* |  |  | us |  |  |  |  | nom swimming «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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