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title: The limbs moved and stretched out and extended themselves till they… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The limbs moved and stretched out and extended themselves till they took a beautiful shape; and behold there was the pretty child lying before her, and the ugly frog was gone. " Who acts: limbs, pretty child, ugly frog. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 89

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The limbs moved and stretched out and extended themselves till they took a beautiful shape; and behold there was the pretty child lying before her, and the ugly frog was gone. "

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**Who acts:** limbs, pretty child, ugly frog · **What happens:** move, stretch out, extend, take, be, lie · **To what, where:** limbs, beautiful shape, pretty child

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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 (limbs, pretty child, ugly frog), 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:pg27200:83:89
# text = The limbs moved and stretched out and extended themselves till they took a beautiful shape; and behold there was the pretty child lying before her, and the ugly frog was gone. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | the limbs |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch out** | participle | the limbs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **extend** | past | the limbs *not said here* | limbs *= limb* |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | limbs *= limb* | a beautiful shape |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the pretty child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lie** | gerund | the pretty child *not said here* |  |  |  | before frog |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
| 7 | **is** | past | the ugly frog |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | 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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