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title: He flew into a tree, and beat his black wings as long as he could se… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He flew into a tree, and beat his black wings as long as he could see the carriage, that shone from afar like a sunbeam. Who acts: Raven, carriage. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 131

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He flew into a tree, and beat his black wings as long as he could see the carriage, that shone from afar like a sunbeam.

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**Who acts:** Raven, carriage · **What happens:** fly, beat, see, shine · **To what, where:** tree, black wings, carriage, afar

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (Raven, carriage), 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:pg1597:13:131
# text = He flew into a tree, and beat his black wings as long as he could see the carriage, that shone from afar like a sunbeam.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Raven |  |  |  |  | into a tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result |
| 2 | **beat** | past | Raven *not said here* | Raven's black wings |  |  |  | long *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | could | Raven | the carriage |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carriage=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shine** | past | the carriage |  |  | afar like a sunbeam |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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