--- title: They flew over woods and lakes, over sea and land; below them roared… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They flew over woods and lakes, over sea and land; below them roared the wild wind; the wolves howled and the snow crackled; over them flew the black screaming crows, and above all shone the moon, clear and bright,--and so Kay passed through the long winter's night, and by day he slept at the feet o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Little Boy and a Little Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/) / 86 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 86 They flew over woods and lakes, over sea and land; below them roared the wild wind; the wolves howled and the snow crackled; over them flew the black screaming crows, and above all shone the moon, clear and bright,--and so Kay passed through the long winter's night, and by day he slept at the feet of the Snow Queen. **Who acts:** songs, wolves, snow, Kay, fur · **What happens:** fly, roar, howl, crackle, shine, clear · **To what, where:** woods, wild wind, black screaming crows, moon, feet This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (songs, wolves, snow, Kay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:171:86 # text = They flew over woods and lakes, over sea and land; below them roared the wild wind; the wolves howled and the snow crackled; over them flew the black screaming crows, and above all shone the moon, clear and bright,--and so Kay passed through the long winter's night, and by day he slept at the feet of the Snow Queen. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 below below ADP IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 roared roar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 howled howl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 crackled crackle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 over over SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 screaming screaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 above above ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 all all ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 clear clear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 49 so so ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 50 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 52 through through ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 56 's 's PART POS _ 55 case _ _ 57 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 60 by by ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 62 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 63 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 64 at at ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obl _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 69 Snow Snow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 70 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | songs *= song* | | | woods and lakes | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wood=Location | | 2 | **roar** | past | songs *= song* | the wild wind | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme | | 3 | **howl** | past | the wolves | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **crackle** | past | the snow | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fly** | past | songs *= song* | the black screaming crows | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crow=Theme | | 6 | **shine** | past | songs *= song* *not said here* | the moon | | | | all *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | | 7 | **clear** | infinitive | songs *= song* *not said here* | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 8 | **pass** | past | Kay | | | | night | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **sleep** | past | fur | | | the feet of the Snow Queen | day | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/85/) - next →: [The Flower Garden of the Wom…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/1/) - ↑ back to [A Little Boy and a Little Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/)