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title: Beautiful children ran along the country lanes, playing with large g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Beautiful children ran along the country lanes, playing with large gay butterflies; and as the swallow flew farther and farther, every place appeared still more lovely. Who acts: Beautiful children, swallow, place. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 162

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Beautiful children ran along the country lanes, playing with large gay butterflies; and as the swallow flew farther and farther, every place appeared still more lovely.

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**Who acts:** Beautiful children, swallow, place · **What happens:** run, play, fly, appear · **To what, where:** country lanes

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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 (Beautiful children, swallow, place), 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:pg27200:79:162
# text = Beautiful children ran along the country lanes, playing with large gay butterflies; and as the swallow flew farther and farther, every place appeared still more lovely.
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Beautiful children |  |  | the country lanes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along lane=Trajectory |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | Beautiful children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with large gay butterflies | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with butterfly=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | past | the swallow |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **appear** | past | every place |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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