--- title: But his companion tied on his wings to his shoulders, took three rod… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But his companion tied on his wings to his shoulders, took three rods, and, with his sword at his side, flew to the palace. Who acts: companion. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Travelling Companion, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/) / 31 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 31 But his companion tied on his wings to his shoulders, took three rods, and, with his sword at his side, flew to the palace. **Who acts:** companion · **What happens:** tie, take, fly · **To what, where:** companion, three rods This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companion), 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:pg27200:198:31 # text = But his companion tied on his wings to his shoulders, took three rods, and, with his sword at his side, flew to the palace. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 rods rod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tie** | participle | | John's companion *not said here* | | | | on John's wings to John's shoulders | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on wing=Co-Patient | | 2 | **take** | past | John's companion | three rods | | | | with John's sword at John's side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | past | John's companion *not said here* | | | | | to the palace *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/32/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/)