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title: There came presently across the fields a whole group of children, th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There came presently across the fields a whole group of children, the youngest of whom was so small that it had to be carried by the others; and when he was seated on the grass, among the yellow flowers, he laughed aloud with joy, kicked out his little legs, rolled about, plucked the yellow flowers,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 32

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There came presently across the fields a whole group of children, the youngest of whom was so small that it had to be carried by the others; and when he was seated on the grass, among the yellow flowers, he laughed aloud with joy, kicked out his little legs, rolled about, plucked the yellow flowers, and kissed them in childlike innocence.

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**Who acts:** whole group, group, others, flower · **What happens:** come, be, have, carry, seat, laugh · **To what, where:** fields, flower, grass, little legs, yellow flowers, legs

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole group, group, others, flower), 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:pg27200:6:32
# text = There came presently across the fields a whole group of children, the youngest of whom was so small that it had to be carried by the others; and when he was seated on the grass, among the yellow flowers, he laughed aloud with joy, kicked out his little legs, rolled about, plucked the yellow flowers, and kissed them in childlike innocence.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	among	among	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
46	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	kicked	kick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	advcl	_	_
57	about	about	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
66	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	childlike	childlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a whole group of children |  |  | the fields; there |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | group |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive · passive | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **seat** | past · passive |  | flower |  | the grass |  | among the yellow flowers | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 6 | **laugh** | past | flower |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **kick out** | participle | flower *not said here* | flower's little legs |  |  |  | with joy | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent leg=Patient with joy=Instrument |
| 8 | **roll about** | participle | flower *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **pluck** | past | a whole group of children *not said here* | the yellow flowers |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 10 | **kiss** | past |  | legs *= leg* |  | childlike innocence |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |

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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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