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title: Driven by fear and horror, she flew homeward; she was almost sinking… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Driven by fear and horror, she flew homeward; she was almost sinking fainting to the earth, while the flock of pursuing birds increased, some even attempting to peck at her. Who acts: fly, some. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 79

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Driven by fear and horror, she flew homeward; she was almost sinking fainting to the earth, while the flock of pursuing birds increased, some even attempting to peck at her.

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**Who acts:** fly, some · **What happens:** drive, fly, sink, faint, pursue, increase · **To what, where:** homeward, pursuing birds

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fly, some), 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:pg27200:124:79
# text = Driven by fear and horror, she flew homeward; she was almost sinking fainting to the earth, while the flock of pursuing birds increased, some even attempting to peck at her.
1	Driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by fear and horror | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | past | fly | homeward |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme |
| 3 | **sink** | past · progressive | fly |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **faint** | gerund | fly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the earth | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **pursue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **increase** | participle |  | pursuing birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **attempt** | gerund | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **peck** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at fly | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at she=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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