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title: The arrow struck our young friend and sister, and slowly singing her… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The arrow struck our young friend and sister, and slowly singing her farewell song she sank down, a dying swan, into the forest lake. Who acts: arrow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 70

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The arrow struck our young friend and sister, and slowly singing her farewell song she sank down, a dying swan, into the forest lake.

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**Who acts:** arrow · **What happens:** strike, sing, sink down, die · **To what, where:** young friend, farewell song, forest lake

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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 (arrow), 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:pg27200:84:70
# text = The arrow struck our young friend and sister, and slowly singing her farewell song she sank down, a dying swan, into the forest lake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the arrow | our young friend and sister |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent friend=Instrument |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the arrow *not said here* | arrow's farewell song and a dying swan |  | the forest lake |  | slowly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic into lake=Recipient |
| 3 | **sink down** | past | arrow | arrow's farewell song and a dying swan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent song=Patient |
| 4 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **sing** |  | arrow |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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