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title: In later days two mighty swans have been seen to fly from the nest. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In later days two mighty swans have been seen to fly from the nest. Who acts: two mighty swans. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 10

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In later days two mighty swans have been seen to fly from the nest.

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**Who acts:** two mighty swans · **What happens:** see, fly · **To what, where:** two mighty swans, nest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swan's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two mighty swans), 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:pg27200:187:10
# text = In later days two mighty swans have been seen to fly from the nest.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect · passive |  | two mighty swans |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | two mighty swans *not said here* |  |  | the nest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory |

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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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