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title: The female young ones strutted about amid the moist rushes, glancing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The female young ones strutted about amid the moist rushes, glancing at the other young storks and making acquaintances, and swallowing a frog at every third step, or tossing a little snake about with their beaks, in a way they considered very becoming, and besides it tasted very good. Who acts: fem
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 57

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The female young ones strutted about amid the moist rushes, glancing at the other young storks and making acquaintances, and swallowing a frog at every third step, or tossing a little snake about with their beaks, in a way they considered very becoming, and besides it tasted very good.

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**Who acts:** female young ones, frogs, gravely · **What happens:** strut, glance, make, swallow, toss, consider · **To what, where:** moist rushes, acquaintances, frog, little snake, way

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (female young ones, frogs, gravely), 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:pg27200:84:57
# text = The female young ones strutted about amid the moist rushes, glancing at the other young storks and making acquaintances, and swallowing a frog at every third step, or tossing a little snake about with their beaks, in a way they considered very becoming, and besides it tasted very good.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	strutted	strut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
28	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	very	very	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
53	very	very	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strut** | participle | the female young ones *not said here* | the moist rushes |  |  |  | about amid | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about amid=Trajectory |
| 2 | **glance** | gerund | the female young ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the other young storks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stork=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the female young ones *not said here* | acquaintances |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product |
| 4 | **swallow** | gerund | the female young ones *not said here* | a frog |  |  |  | at every third step | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient |
| 5 | **toss** | gerund | the female young ones *not said here* | a little snake |  |  |  | with frogs's beaks; about *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Product with beak=Material |
| 6 | **consider** | past | frogs *= frog* | a way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Attribute |
| 7 | **become** | gerund | frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **taste** | past | gravely |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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