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title: These children rush out in swarms, and surround travellers, whether… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These children rush out in swarms, and surround travellers, whether on foot or in carriages. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 11

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These children rush out in swarms, and surround travellers, whether on foot or in carriages.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** rush out · **To what, where:** swarms

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg27200:52:11
# text = These children rush out in swarms, and surround travellers, whether on foot or in carriages.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	surround	surround	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush out** | present | this children |  |  | swarms |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swarm=Trajectory |

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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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