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title: "All over," twittered the swallows, who were also flying eastward to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "All over," twittered the swallows, who were also flying eastward towards the Tree of the Sun. It was no good news which they carried home. Who acts: swallows, swallow, swans. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 95

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"All over," twittered the swallows, who were also flying eastward towards the Tree of the Sun. It was no good news which they carried home.

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**Who acts:** swallows, swallow, swans · **What happens:** twitter, fly, be, carry · **To what, where:** swallows, good news

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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 (swallows, swallow, swans), 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:pg27200:143:95
# text = "All over," twittered the swallows, who were also flying eastward towards the Tree of the Sun. It was no good news which they carried home.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	twittered	twitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
14	eastward	eastward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twitter** | past |  | the swallows |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past · progressive | the swallows |  |  |  |  | towards the Tree of the Sun.; eastward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards tree=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past | swallow | no good news |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | past | swans *= swan* | no good news |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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