--- title: And then came creeping over her face and eyes flies without wings; s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And then came creeping over her face and eyes flies without wings; she winked and blinked, but they could not fly away, for their wings had been pulled off; this, added to the hunger she felt, was horrible torture. Who acts: creeping, punishment, wings. 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C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creeping, punishment, wings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:37:35 # text = And then came creeping over her face and eyes flies without wings; she winked and blinked, but they could not fly away, for their wings had been pulled off; this, added to the hunger she felt, was horrible torture. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 creeping creep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 winked wink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 blinked blink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 torture torture NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **creep** | gerund | | | | punishment's face and eyes | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=Trajectory | | 3 | **fly** | present | creeping | | | | | without wings | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wink** | past | punishment | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **blink** | past | punishment *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **fly away** | could | wings *= wing* | | | | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **pull off** | past · perfect · passive | | wings's wings | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 8 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle · passive | | this | | | | to the hunger | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to hunger=Co-Patient | | 9 | **feel** | past | punishment | the hunger *not said here* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme | | 10 | **is a** | past | | horrible torture | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/36/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/)