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title: The morning dawn illuminated the red clouds, the swan rose strengthe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The morning dawn illuminated the red clouds, the swan rose strengthened, and flew towards the rising sun, towards the bluish coast whither the caravan had gone; but he flew alone, with a longing in his breast. Who acts: morning dawn, swan, caravan. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening, sentence 7

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The morning dawn illuminated the red clouds, the swan rose strengthened, and flew towards the rising sun, towards the bluish coast whither the caravan had gone; but he flew alone, with a longing in his breast.

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**Who acts:** morning dawn, swan, caravan · **What happens:** illuminate, rise, strengthen, fly, go · **To what, where:** red clouds, rising sun

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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 (morning dawn, swan, caravan), 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:pg27200:118:7
# text = The morning dawn illuminated the red clouds, the swan rose strengthened, and flew towards the rising sun, towards the bluish coast whither the caravan had gone; but he flew alone, with a longing in his breast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	amod	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bluish	bluish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **illuminate** | past | the morning dawn | the red clouds |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Destination |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the swan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **strengthen** | participle | the swan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the swan *not said here* |  |  | the rising sun |  | towards the bluish coast | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sun=Destination |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | past · perfect | the caravan |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fly** | past | caravan |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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:** «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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