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title: Then she brought the swallow some water in a flower-leaf, and after… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she brought the swallow some water in a flower-leaf, and after he had drank, he told her that he had wounded one of his wings in a thorn-bush, and could not fly as fast as the others, who were soon far away on their journey to warm countries. Who acts: Tiny, snow, others. A sentence of «Fairy T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 109

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Then she brought the swallow some water in a flower-leaf, and after he had drank, he told her that he had wounded one of his wings in a thorn-bush, and could not fly as fast as the others, who were soon far away on their journey to warm countries.

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**Who acts:** Tiny, snow, others · **What happens:** bring, drink, tell, wound, not fly, be · **To what, where:** swallow, flower leaf, Tiny, one, journey, countries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiny, snow, others), 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:pg27200:79:109
# text = Then she brought the swallow some water in a flower-leaf, and after he had drank, he told her that he had wounded one of his wings in a thorn-bush, and could not fly as fast as the others, who were soon far away on their journey to warm countries.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	drank	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
41	as	as	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
49	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
50	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	_
51	away	away	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	acl	_	_
57	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Tiny | the swallow |  | a flower leaf | then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Destination water=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | past · perfect | snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | snow |  | Tiny |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wound** | past · perfect | snow | one of snow's wings in a thorn bush |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **fly** | could |  |  |  |  |  | as the others; fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the others |  |  | swallow's journey |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **warm** | to-infinitive |  | countries |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent country=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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