--- title: High in the air a flight of wild swans were winging their way, one o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: High in the air a flight of wild swans were winging their way, one of which sank lower and lower, with wearied pinions, his eyes following the airy caravan, that melted farther and farther into the distance. Who acts: wild swans, way, eyes, airy caravan. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Twenty-seventh Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/) / 3 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening, sentence 3 High in the air a flight of wild swans were winging their way, one of which sank lower and lower, with wearied pinions, his eyes following the airy caravan, that melted farther and farther into the distance. **Who acts:** wild swans, way, eyes, airy caravan · **What happens:** wing, sink, weary, follow, melt · **To what, where:** way, one, airy caravan This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild swans, way, eyes, airy caravan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:118:3 # text = High in the air a flight of wild swans were winging their way, one of which sank lower and lower, with wearied pinions, his eyes following the airy caravan, that melted farther and farther into the distance. 1 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 winging wing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 wearied weary VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 pinions pinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 airy airy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 caravan caravan NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 melted melt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 conj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wing** | past · progressive | wild swans | swans's way | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | | 2 | **sink** | past | swans's way | one | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pinion=Patient | | 3 | **weary** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **follow** | gerund | Moon's eyes *not said here* | the airy caravan | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Theme | | 5 | **melt** | past | the airy caravan | | | | | into the distance; far *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into distance=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/4/) - ↑ back to [Twenty-seventh Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/)