--- title: On the coast of France there sounded a cry of fear, for the blood-st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: On the coast of France there sounded a cry of fear, for the blood-stained swans that came from the North with fire under their wings; and the people prayed, "Heaven deliver us from the wild Northmen." Who acts: stained swans, people, Heaven, fear. 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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 (stained swans, people, Heaven, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:187:6 # text = On the coast of France there sounded a cry of fear, for the blood-stained swans that came from the North with fire under their wings; and the people prayed, "Heaven deliver us from the wild Northmen." 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 7 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 stained stain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 amod _ _ 18 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ _ 38 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 Northmen Northmen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | past | | a cry of fear | | the coast of France; there | | for the stained swans | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cry=Theme | | 2 | **stain** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | the stained swans | | | the North | | with fire; under wings's wings | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from north=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **pray** | past | the people | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **deliver** *in a quote* | infinitive | Heaven | us | | the wild | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from wild=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **cry** | | fear | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/187/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/187/7/) - ↑ back to [The Swan's Nest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/187/)