--- title: Then hand-in-hand they floated away to the spot where the fairy was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then hand-in-hand they floated away to the spot where the fairy was now lingering. Who acts: you, stars, fairy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl, 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/pg27200/70/23/) [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/) / [The Last Pearl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/) / 23 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 23 Then hand-in-hand they floated away to the spot where the fairy was now lingering. **Who acts:** you, stars, fairy · **What happens:** hand, float away, linger · **To what, where:** hand, spot This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stars, fairy), 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:pg27200:70:23 # text = Then hand-in-hand they floated away to the spot where the fairy was now lingering. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 hand hand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 lingering linger VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hand** | imperative | you *not said here* | hand | | | then | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **float away** | past | stars *= star* | hand *not said here* | | the spot | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to spot=Trajectory | | 3 | **linger** | past · progressive | the fairy | | | | now | | vn exist-47.1 «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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/24/) - ↑ back to [The Last Pearl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/)