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title: Here the dreams again flitted by them but so quickly that Gerda coul… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the dreams again flitted by them but so quickly that Gerda could not distinguish the royal persons. Who acts: Gerda. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 90

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Here the dreams again flitted by them but so quickly that Gerda could not distinguish the royal persons.

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**Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** flit, not distinguish · **To what, where:** dreams, royal persons

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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 (Gerda), 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:pg27200:173:90
# text = Here the dreams again flitted by them but so quickly that Gerda could not distinguish the royal persons.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	flitted	flit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flit** | participle |  | the dreams *not said here* |  |  | again | by dreams *= dream* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by they=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **distinguish** | could | Gerda | the royal persons |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute person=Theme |

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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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