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title: Over the ferry-house the crows and daws were flying with loud cries;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the ferry-house the crows and daws were flying with loud cries; one could hardly hear the church bells for their screaming. Who acts: crows, one, bells. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 202

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Over the ferry-house the crows and daws were flying with loud cries; one could hardly hear the church bells for their screaming.

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**Who acts:** crows, one, bells · **What happens:** fly, hear, scream · **To what, where:** ferry house, church bells

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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 (crows, one, bells), 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:pg27200:149:202
# text = Over the ferry-house the crows and daws were flying with loud cries; one could hardly hear the church bells for their screaming.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	daws	daw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	screaming	screaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past · progressive | the crows and daws |  |  | the ferry house |  | with loud cries | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over house=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | could | one | the church bells |  |  |  | for bells's screaming; hardly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus |
| 3 | **scream** |  | bells *= bell* |  |  |  |  |  | nom screaming «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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