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title: John saw them fly away out of the green trees into the wide world, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: John saw them fly away out of the green trees into the wide world, and he longed to fly with them; but first he cut out a large wooden cross, to place on his father's grave; and when he brought it there in the evening, he found the grave decked out with gravel and flowers. Who acts: John. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 27

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John saw them fly away out of the green trees into the wide world, and he longed to fly with them; but first he cut out a large wooden cross, to place on his father's grave; and when he brought it there in the evening, he found the grave decked out with gravel and flowers.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** see, long, fly, cut out, bring, find · **To what, where:** wings, large wooden cross, cross, grave

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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:pg27200:196:27
# text = John saw them fly away out of the green trees into the wide world, and he longed to fly with them; but first he cut out a large wooden cross, to place on his father's grave; and when he brought it there in the evening, he found the grave decked out with gravel and flowers.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	fly	fly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl	_	_
57	out	out	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	gravel	gravel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | John | wings *= wing* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **long** | past | John |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wings *= wing* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cut out** | past | John | a large wooden cross |  |  |  | to place on John's father's grave; first *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cross=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bring** | past | John | cross |  | there | evening |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | past | John | the grave |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Topic |
| 7 | **deck out** | participle |  | the grave *not said here* |  |  |  | with gravel and flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gravel=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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