--- title: The swallows flew with him a little way, singing, "We and you--you a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The swallows flew with him a little way, singing, "We and you--you and we." Who acts: swallows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/) / 30 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 30 The swallows flew with him a little way, singing, "We and you--you and we." **Who acts:** swallows · **What happens:** fly, sing · **To what, where:** little way This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows), 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:pg27200:53:30 # text = The swallows flew with him a little way, singing, "We and you--you and we." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 swallows swallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | the swallows | a little way | | | | with Rudy | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the swallows *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/31/) - ↑ back to [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/)