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title: He flies through the chamber of content, and brings sunshine into it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He flies through the chamber of content, and brings sunshine into it, and the violets on the humble table smell doubly sweet. Who acts: bird, violets. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 9

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He flies through the chamber of content, and brings sunshine into it, and the violets on the humble table smell doubly sweet.

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**Who acts:** bird, violets · **What happens:** fly, bring, smell · **To what, where:** chamber, sunshine

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Phoenix Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, violets), 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:pg27200:144:9
# text = He flies through the chamber of content, and brings sunshine into it, and the violets on the humble table smell doubly sweet.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	doubly	doubly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | bird |  |  | the chamber of content |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through chamber=Location |
| 2 | **bring** | present | bird *not said here* | sunshine |  | sunshine |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme into it=Destination |
| 3 | **smell** | present | the violets on the humble table |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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