--- title: As quickly as if carried by the winged thoughts they were in the gre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: As quickly as if carried by the winged thoughts they were in the great city, and from the walls the names of the deadly sins shone in flaming letters: pride, avarice, drunkenness, wantonness--in short, the whole seven-coloured bow of sin. Who acts: thoughts. 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C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts), 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:pg27200:2:44 # text = As quickly as if carried by the winged thoughts they were in the great city, and from the walls the names of the deadly sins shone in flaming letters: pride, avarice, drunkenness, wantonness--in short, the whole seven-coloured bow of sin. 1 As as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 5 cc _ _ 2 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 winged wing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 27 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 flaming flaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 32 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 avarice avarice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 drunkenness drunkenness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 wantonness wantonness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 44 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 45 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | participle | | | | the walls the names of the deadly sins and the whole coloured bow of sin | | by the winged thoughts | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from wall=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **wing** | participle | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | thoughts *= thought* | the winged thoughts *not said here* | | the great city | | | tree rules | | 4 | **shine** | participle | | the deadly sins *not said here* | | flaming letters and pride and avarice and drunkenness and wantonness | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in letter=Location | | 5 | **name** | | | the deadly sins | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/45/) - ↑ back to [A Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/)