--- title: However, he flew to a tree, and stood flapping his black wings as lo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: However, he flew to a tree, and stood flapping his black wings as long as he could see the coach, which glittered in the bright sunshine. Who acts: prince, coach. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/118/) [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/) / [The Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/) / 118 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 118 However, he flew to a tree, and stood flapping his black wings as long as he could see the coach, which glittered in the bright sunshine. **Who acts:** prince, coach · **What happens:** fly, stand, flap, see, glitter · **To what, where:** black wings, coach, bright sunshine This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, coach), 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:pg27200:173:118 # text = However, he flew to a tree, and stood flapping his black wings as long as he could see the coach, which glittered in the bright sunshine. 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 flapping flap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 glittered glitter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | prince | | | | | to a tree *result*; however *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | | 2 | **stand** | past | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **flap** | gerund | prince *not said here* | prince's black wings | | | | long *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 4 | **see** | could | prince | the coach | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coach=Stimulus | | 5 | **glitter** | past | the coach | | | the bright sunshine | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location | 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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/117/) - next →: [Little Robber-girl, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/1/) - ↑ back to [The Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/)