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title: Fata Morgana, the beautiful aerial phenomenon of the wilderness, app… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Fata Morgana, the beautiful aerial phenomenon of the wilderness, appeared with hanging gardens and waving forests, and the wonderful cloud called "Lokeman driving his sheep" also was seen. Who acts: Fata, Lokeman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 74

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Fata Morgana, the beautiful aerial phenomenon of the wilderness, appeared with hanging gardens and waving forests, and the wonderful cloud called "Lokeman driving his sheep" also was seen.

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**Who acts:** Fata, Lokeman · **What happens:** appear, hang, wave, call, drive, see · **To what, where:** gardens, forests, wonderful cloud, sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fata, Lokeman), 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:pg27200:161:74
# text = Fata Morgana, the beautiful aerial phenomenon of the wilderness, appeared with hanging gardens and waving forests, and the wonderful cloud called "Lokeman driving his sheep" also was seen.
1	Fata	Fata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	Morgana	Morgana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	aerial	aerial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
15	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
18	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Lokeman	Lokeman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
27	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | Fata |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | Fata *not said here* | gardens |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient |
| 3 | **wave** | gerund | Fata *not said here* | forests |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the wonderful cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drive** *in a quote* | gerund | Lokeman *not said here* | Fata's sheep |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | past · passive |  | the wonderful cloud |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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