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title: And then they spun round so quickly that the death-horse and the gra… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then they spun round so quickly that the death-horse and the grave-pig became sick and giddy, and were obliged to leave the table. Who acts: dances, death horse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 68

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And then they spun round so quickly that the death-horse and the grave-pig became sick and giddy, and were obliged to leave the table.

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**Who acts:** dances, death horse · **What happens:** spin round, become, oblige, leave · **To what, where:** table

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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 (dances, death horse), 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:pg27200:31:68
# text = And then they spun round so quickly that the death-horse and the grave-pig became sick and giddy, and were obliged to leave the table.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
19	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	giddy	giddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin round** | past | dances *= dance* |  |  |  | then | quickly, round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the death horse and the grave pig |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive | dances *= dance* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | dances *= dance* *not said here* | the table |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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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