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title: The great white sea-mews flew over her head, and screamed as the cro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The great white sea-mews flew over her head, and screamed as the crows and daws screamed at home in the garden of the manor house. Who acts: great white sea mews. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 117

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The great white sea-mews flew over her head, and screamed as the crows and daws screamed at home in the garden of the manor house.

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**Who acts:** great white sea mews · **What happens:** fly, scream · **To what, where:** head, crows, home

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great white sea mews), 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:pg27200:149:117
# text = The great white sea-mews flew over her head, and screamed as the crows and daws screamed at home in the garden of the manor house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	mews	mew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	screamed	scream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	daws	daw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	screamed	scream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	manor	manor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the great white sea mews |  |  | seashore's head |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | participle | the great white sea mews *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the crows and daws | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | participle |  | the crows and daws *not said here* |  | home |  | in the garden of the manor house | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |

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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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