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title: Yet, when a clear frosty day came, and Jurgen saw the swans flying i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet, when a clear frosty day came, and Jurgen saw the swans flying in numbers from the sea towards the land, across to Norre-Vosborg, it seemed to him that people could breathe more freely here; the summer also in this part of the world was splendid. Who acts: clear frosty day, Jurgen, swans, it. A 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 35

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Yet, when a clear frosty day came, and Jurgen saw the swans flying in numbers from the sea towards the land, across to Norre-Vosborg, it seemed to him that people could breathe more freely here; the summer also in this part of the world was splendid.

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**Who acts:** clear frosty day, Jurgen, swans, it, people, summer · **What happens:** come, see, fly, seem, breathe, be · **To what, where:** swans, Norre Vosborg, numbers, Jurgen

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear frosty day, Jurgen, swans, it), 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:pg27200:160:35
# text = Yet, when a clear frosty day came, and Jurgen saw the swans flying in numbers from the sea towards the land, across to Norre-Vosborg, it seemed to him that people could breathe more freely here; the summer also in this part of the world was splendid.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	frosty	frosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	across	across	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Norre	Norre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
39	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
40	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
45	also	also	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
48	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a clear frosty day |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Jurgen | the swans |  | Norre Vosborg |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | the swans *not said here* |  |  | numbers |  | from the sea; towards the land | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in number=Trajectory from sea=Initial\_Location towards land=Destination |
| 4 | **seem** | past | it |  | Jurgen |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **breathe** | could | people |  |  | here |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | the summer and this part of the world |  |  |  |  | splendid *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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