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title: We have seen swan after swan soar by in glorious flight. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We have seen swan after swan soar by in glorious flight. Who acts: We. 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 14

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We have seen swan after swan soar by in glorious flight.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** swan

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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 (We), 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:pg27200:187:14
# text = We have seen swan after swan soar by in glorious flight.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	soar	soar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | We | swan |  |  | after swan soar | by glorious flight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus |

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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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