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title: Just there, by the reeds and the green banks, lay the trunk of an el… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Just there, by the reeds and the green banks, lay the trunk of an elder-tree; upon this the three swans stood flapping their wings, and looking about them; one of them threw off her plumage, and I immediately recognized her as one of the princesses of our home in Egypt. Who acts: three swans, one, I
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 38

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Just there, by the reeds and the green banks, lay the trunk of an elder-tree; upon this the three swans stood flapping their wings, and looking about them; one of them threw off her plumage, and I immediately recognized her as one of the princesses of our home in Egypt.

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**Who acts:** three swans, one, I · **What happens:** lay, stand, flap, look, throw off, recognize · **To what, where:** trunk, wings, plumage, swan

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three swans, one, I), 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:pg27200:83:38
# text = Just there, by the reeds and the green banks, lay the trunk of an elder-tree; upon this the three swans stood flapping their wings, and looking about them; one of them threw off her plumage, and I immediately recognized her as one of the princesses of our home in Egypt.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
40	off	off	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present |  | the trunk of a elder tree |  | there |  | by the reeds and the green banks | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme by reed=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the three swans |  |  |  |  | upon this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **flap** | gerund | the three swans *not said here* | trees's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | the three swans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about wings *= wing* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme |
| 5 | **throw off** | past | one of wings | swan's plumage |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme |
| 6 | **recognize** | past | I | swan |  |  |  | as one of the princesses of our home in Egypt; immediately *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus as one=Attribute |

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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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