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title: You can fly from them now up high amid the clouds, and will be in th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You can fly from them now up high amid the clouds, and will be in the land of the pyramids when they are freezing, and have not a green leaf on the trees or an apple to eat." Who acts: You, storks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 67

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You can fly from them now up high amid the clouds, and will be in the land of the pyramids when they are freezing, and have not a green leaf on the trees or an apple to eat."

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**Who acts:** You, storks · **What happens:** fly, be, freeze, have, eat · **To what, where:** high amid, land, green leaf, trees

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, storks), 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:pg27200:183:67
# text = You can fly from them now up high amid the clouds, and will be in the land of the pyramids when they are freezing, and have not a green leaf on the trees or an apple to eat."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | can | You | high amid  the clouds |  |  |  | from storks *= stork* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | future |  |  |  | the land |  | of the pyramids | tree rules |
| 3 | **freeze** | present · progressive | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | a green leaf |  | the trees or a apple |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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