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title: Another flock, with shining plumage and honest eyes, soared southwar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Another flock, with shining plumage and honest eyes, soared southward to Byzantium; the swans established themselves there close by the Emperor's throne, and spread their wings over him as shields to protect him. Who acts: flock, swans. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swan's Nest, sentence 4

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Another flock, with shining plumage and honest eyes, soared southward to Byzantium; the swans established themselves there close by the Emperor's throne, and spread their wings over him as shields to protect him.

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**Who acts:** flock, swans · **What happens:** shine, soar, establish, spread, protect · **To what, where:** plumage, Byzantium, wings, 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 (flock, 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:pg27200:187:4
# text = Another flock, with shining plumage and honest eyes, soared southward to Byzantium; the swans established themselves there close by the Emperor's throne, and spread their wings over him as shields to protect him.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Byzantium	Byzantium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
21	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund | another flock *not said here* | plumage and honest eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme |
| 2 | **soar** | past | another flock |  | Byzantium |  |  | southward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to byzantium=Result |
| 3 | **establish** | past | the swans | plumage |  | there |  | by the Emperor's throne; close *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 4 | **spread** | past | another flock *not said here* | plumage's wings |  |  |  | over swan; as shields | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme over he=Destination |
| 5 | **protect** | to-infinitive | another flock *not said here* |  | swan |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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