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title: "I will fetch it back," said Rudy; throwing off his coat and boots,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I will fetch it back," said Rudy; throwing off his coat and boots, he sprang into the lake, and swam with strong efforts towards it. Who acts: Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 30

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"I will fetch it back," said Rudy; throwing off his coat and boots, he sprang into the lake, and swam with strong efforts towards it.

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**Who acts:** Rudy · **What happens:** fetch back, say, throw off, spring, swim · **To what, where:** island, coat, lake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg27200:66:30
# text = "I will fetch it back," said Rudy; throwing off his coat and boots, he sprang into the lake, and swam with strong efforts towards it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch back** *in a quote* | future | Rudy | island |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **throw off** | gerund | Rudy *not said here* | Rudy's coat and boots |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
| 4 | **spring** | past | Rudy |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lake=Destination |
| 5 | **swim** | past | Rudy *not said here* |  |  | island |  | with strong efforts | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination |

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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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