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title: And with that he gave a hop, and flapped his wings twice, proudly; t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And with that he gave a hop, and flapped his wings twice, proudly; then he stretched his neck and flew, or rather soared away, without moving his outspread wings. Who acts: good. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 53

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And with that he gave a hop, and flapped his wings twice, proudly; then he stretched his neck and flew, or rather soared away, without moving his outspread wings.

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**Who acts:** good · **What happens:** give, flap, stretch, fly, soar away, move · **To what, where:** hop, wings, neck, outspread wings

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good), 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:pg27200:85:53
# text = And with that he gave a hop, and flapped his wings twice, proudly; then he stretched his neck and flew, or rather soared away, without moving his outspread wings.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	soared	soar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	outspread	outspread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | good | a hop |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Theme |
| 2 | **flap** | past | good *not said here* | good's wings |  |  |  | proudly, twice *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **stretch** | past | good | good's neck |  |  | then |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 4 | **fly** | past | good *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **soar away** | participle | good *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **move** | gerund | good *not said here* | good's outspread wings |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |

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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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