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title: The bird flying past the entrance to the cavern feels as if one wing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird flying past the entrance to the cavern feels as if one wing were in the region of summer, and the other in the depths of winter." Who acts: bird, one wing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 153

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The bird flying past the entrance to the cavern feels as if one wing were in the region of summer, and the other in the depths of winter."

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**Who acts:** bird, one wing · **What happens:** fly, feel, be · **To what, where:** region

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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 (bird, one wing), 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:pg27200:140:153
# text = The bird flying past the entrance to the cavern feels as if one wing were in the region of summer, and the other in the depths of winter."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund | the bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | past the entrance; to the cavern *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cavern=Result |
| 2 | **feel** | present | the bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one wing |  |  | the region | summer |  | tree rules |

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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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