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title: The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus went forth,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus went forth, where Cortez was born, and where Calderon sang dramas in sounding verse. Who acts: air steamboat, Columbus, Calderon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 18

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The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus went forth, where Cortez was born, and where Calderon sang dramas in sounding verse.

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**Who acts:** air steamboat, Columbus, Calderon · **What happens:** fly, go, bear, sing, sound · **To what, where:** country, Cortez, dramas, verse

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air steamboat, Columbus, Calderon), 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:pg27200:191:18
# text = The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus went forth, where Cortez was born, and where Calderon sang dramas in sounding verse.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	steamboat	steamboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	Cortez	Cortez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	Calderon	Calderon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	dramas	drama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | the air steamboat |  |  | the country |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over country=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | Columbus |  |  |  |  | forth, whence *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Cortez |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Calderon | dramas |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drama=Theme |
| 5 | **sound** | gerund | Calderon *not said here* | verse |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location verse=Theme |

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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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