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title: Birds from the Polar regions came flying here, and of course the sto… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds from the Polar regions came flying here, and of course the stork and the swallow were not absent. Who acts: Birds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 6

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Birds from the Polar regions came flying here, and of course the stork and the swallow were not absent.

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**Who acts:** Birds · **What happens:** come, fly, not be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds), 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:pg27200:143:6
# text = Birds from the Polar regions came flying here, and of course the stork and the swallow were not absent.
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Birds from the Polar regions |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | Birds from the Polar regions *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | Birds from the Polar regions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the stork and the swallow; absent *property* | 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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