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title: Vines clustered round its lofty pillars, and at the top were many sw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Vines clustered round its lofty pillars, and at the top were many swallows' nests, and one of these was the home of the swallow who carried Tiny. Who acts: nests, one, swallow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 164

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Vines clustered round its lofty pillars, and at the top were many swallows' nests, and one of these was the home of the swallow who carried Tiny.

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**Who acts:** nests, one, swallow · **What happens:** cluster, be, carry · **To what, where:** Vines, top, home, Tiny

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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 (nests, one, swallow), 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:pg27200:79:164
# text = Vines clustered round its lofty pillars, and at the top were many swallows' nests, and one of these was the home of the swallow who carried Tiny.
1	Vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cluster** | participle |  | Vines and the home *not said here* |  |  |  | round side's lofty pillars | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | many swallows's nests |  |  | the top |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | one of these | the home |  |  |  | of the swallow | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | past | the swallow | Tiny |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiny=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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