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title: The eagle in the dark forests flies swiftly; but faster than he flew… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The eagle in the dark forests flies swiftly; but faster than he flew the East Wind. Who acts: eagle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 141

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The eagle in the dark forests flies swiftly; but faster than he flew the East Wind.

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**Who acts:** eagle · **What happens:** fly · **To what, where:** East Wind

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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:pg27200:140:141
# text = The eagle in the dark forests flies swiftly; but faster than he flew the East Wind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | the eagle in the dark forests |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | eagle | the East Wind |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=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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