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title: The whole winter the swallow remained underground, and Tiny nursed h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole winter the swallow remained underground, and Tiny nursed him with care and love. Who acts: Tiny. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 111

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The whole winter the swallow remained underground, and Tiny nursed him with care and love.

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**Who acts:** Tiny · **What happens:** remain, nurse · **To what, where:** whole winter, snow

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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), 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:pg27200:79:111
# text = The whole winter the swallow remained underground, and Tiny nursed him with care and love.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | participle · passive |  | the whole winter |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **nurse** | past | Tiny |  | snow |  |  | with care and love | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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