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title: Two will-o'-the-wisps came jumping in, one quicker than the other, s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two will-o'-the-wisps came jumping in, one quicker than the other, so of course, one arrived first. " Who acts: Two, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 43

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Two will-o'-the-wisps came jumping in, one quicker than the other, so of course, one arrived first. "

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**Who acts:** Two, one · **What happens:** come, jump in, arrive

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two, one), 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:pg27200:31:43
# text = Two will-o'-the-wisps came jumping in, one quicker than the other, so of course, one arrived first. "
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	10	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wisps	wisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	_
25	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | Two |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump in** | gerund | Two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | one |  |  |  |  | first *property* | 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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