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title: He was tumbled over and over with the rain, sometimes swimming on hi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was tumbled over and over with the rain, sometimes swimming on his stomach and sometimes on his back; and as for flying, that was out of the question. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 39

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He was tumbled over and over with the rain, sometimes swimming on his stomach and sometimes on his back; and as for flying, that was out of the question.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** tumble, swim, fly, be · **To what, where:** beetle, stomach, question

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg27200:8:39
# text = He was tumbled over and over with the rain, sometimes swimming on his stomach and sometimes on his back; and as for flying, that was out of the question.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	25	cc	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **tumble** | past · passive |  | beetle |  |  |  | with the rain; over *property* | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with rain=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  | beetle's stomach and beetle's back |  | sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stomach=Trajectory |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  | the question |  |  | tree rules |

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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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