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title: He then walked away towards the Metal Pig, half knelt down, clasped… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He then walked away towards the Metal Pig, half knelt down, clasped it with his arms, and then put his mouth to the shining snout and drank deep draughts of the fresh water. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 10

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He then walked away towards the Metal Pig, half knelt down, clasped it with his arms, and then put his mouth to the shining snout and drank deep draughts of the fresh water.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** walk away, kneel down, clasp, put, shine, drink · **To what, where:** pig, mouth, deep draughts

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg27200:89:10
# text = He then walked away towards the Metal Pig, half knelt down, clasped it with his arms, and then put his mouth to the shining snout and drank deep draughts of the fresh water.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Metal	Metal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	advmod	_	_
11	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	draughts	draught	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk away** | past | boy |  |  |  | then | towards the Metal Pig; away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kneel down** | participle | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | half *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clasp** | past | boy *not said here* | pig |  |  |  | with boy's arms | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with arm=Instrument |
| 4 | **put** | past |  | boy's mouth |  |  | then | to the shining snout | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Goal |
| 5 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drink** | past |  | deep draughts of the fresh water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient |

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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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