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title: Rudy swung Babette round two or three times; and then, hand-in-hand,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy swung Babette round two or three times; and then, hand-in-hand, they sat down on a little bench under the drooping acacia-tree, and looked into each other's eyes, while everything around them glowed in the rays of the setting sun. Who acts: Rudy, oars, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 10

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Rudy swung Babette round two or three times; and then, hand-in-hand, they sat down on a little bench under the drooping acacia-tree, and looked into each other's eyes, while everything around them glowed in the rays of the setting sun.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, oars, everything · **What happens:** swing, sit down, droop, look, glow, ray · **To what, where:** Babette, hand hand, rays, setting sun.

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, oars, everything), 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:pg27200:66:10
# text = Rudy swung Babette round two or three times; and then, hand-in-hand, they sat down on a little bench under the drooping acacia-tree, and looked into each other's eyes, while everything around them glowed in the rays of the setting sun.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
29	acacia	acacia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	45	nsubj	_	_
43	around	around	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	_
45	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | past | Rudy | Babette |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent babette=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | oars *= oar* |  |  | hand hand |  | on a little bench; under the drooping acacia tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location |
| 3 | **droop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | Rudy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into each other eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme |
| 5 | **glow** | past | everything |  |  | the rays of the setting sun. |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location |
| 6 | **ray** |  |  | the setting sun. |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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