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title: The Turks, when they saw such a sight in the air, jumped so high tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Turks, when they saw such a sight in the air, jumped so high that their slippers flew about their ears. Who acts: Turks, slippers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 96

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The Turks, when they saw such a sight in the air, jumped so high that their slippers flew about their ears.

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**Who acts:** Turks, slippers · **What happens:** see, jump, fly · **To what, where:** sight, air

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turks, slippers), 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:pg27200:35:96
# text = The Turks, when they saw such a sight in the air, jumped so high that their slippers flew about their ears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Turks	Turk	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Turks *= turk* | such sight |  | the air |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
| 2 | **jump** | past | the Turks |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Turks's slippers |  |  |  |  | about Turks's ears | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ear=Location |

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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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