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title: The hounds were running off, flocks of wild fowl flew screaming over… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The hounds were running off, flocks of wild fowl flew screaming over the barrows, while the bramble bushes twined round the old stones. Who acts: hounds, flocks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 94

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The hounds were running off, flocks of wild fowl flew screaming over the barrows, while the bramble bushes twined round the old stones.

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**Who acts:** hounds, flocks · **What happens:** run off, fly, scream, twine · **To what, where:** bramble bushes, barrows, old stones

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hounds, flocks), 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:pg27200:72:94
# text = The hounds were running off, flocks of wild fowl flew screaming over the barrows, while the bramble bushes twined round the old stones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	barrows	barrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bramble	bramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
21	twined	twine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past · progressive | the hounds |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | flocks of wild fowl | the bramble bushes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | flocks of wild fowl *not said here* |  |  | the barrows |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over barrow=Location |
| 4 | **twine** | participle |  | the bramble bushes *not said here* |  | the old stones |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round stone=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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