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title: And she flew past old castles of by-gone days of chivalry, where the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And she flew past old castles of by-gone days of chivalry, where the red walls and the embattled gables were mirrored in the canal, where the swans were swimming, and peered up into the old cool avenues. Who acts: girl, swans. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 117

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And she flew past old castles of by-gone days of chivalry, where the red walls and the embattled gables were mirrored in the canal, where the swans were swimming, and peered up into the old cool avenues.

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**Who acts:** girl, swans · **What happens:** fly, embattl, mirror, swim, peer up · **To what, where:** old castles, red walls, canal

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, swans), 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:pg1597:17:117
# text = And she flew past old castles of by-gone days of chivalry, where the red walls and the embattled gables were mirrored in the canal, where the swans were swimming, and peered up into the old cool avenues.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	chivalry	chivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	embattled	embattl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	gables	gable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	mirrored	mirror	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	peered	peer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | girl |  |  | old castles of gone days of chivalry |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past castle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **embattl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mirror** | past · passive |  | the red walls and the embattled gables |  | the canal |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **swim** | past · progressive | the swans |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **peer up** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the old cool avenues | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into avenue=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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