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title: Hundreds of eagles were attached to this ship, and it rose with the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Hundreds of eagles were attached to this ship, and it rose with the swiftness of an arrow up towards the sun. The earth was soon left far below, and looked, with its mountains and woods, like a cornfield where the plough had made furrows which separated green meadows; soon it looked only like a map 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 19

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Hundreds of eagles were attached to this ship, and it rose with the swiftness of an arrow up towards the sun. The earth was soon left far below, and looked, with its mountains and woods, like a cornfield where the plough had made furrows which separated green meadows; soon it looked only like a map with indistinct lines upon it; and at last it entirely disappeared in mist and clouds.

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**Who acts:** ship, swiftness, furrows, last · **What happens:** attach, rise, arrow up, leave, look, make · **To what, where:** Hundreds, earth, plough, green meadows, map, mist

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, swiftness, furrows, last), 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:pg27200:207:19
# text = Hundreds of eagles were attached to this ship, and it rose with the swiftness of an arrow up towards the sun. The earth was soon left far below, and looked, with its mountains and woods, like a cornfield where the plough had made furrows which separated green meadows; soon it looked only like a map with indistinct lines upon it; and at last it entirely disappeared in mist and clouds.
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	arrow	arrow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	below	below	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	advcl	_	_
48	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
54	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	56	advmod	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
57	only	only	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
58	like	like	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	_
64	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
68	at	at	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	nsubj	_	_
70	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
71	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
72	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	conj	_	_
73	in	in	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
74	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obl	_	_
75	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	76	cc	_	_
76	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	74	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attach** | past · passive |  | Hundreds of eagles |  |  |  | to this ship | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to ship=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | past | ship |  |  |  |  | with the swiftness | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **arrow up** | present | the swiftness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the earth |  |  | sunday | below, soon *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | past | ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with ship's mountains and woods | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the plough |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary furrow=Product |
| 7 | **separate** | past | furrows | green meadows |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient |
| 8 | **look** | past | ship | a map |  |  |  | with indistinct lines upon plough; soon *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme map=Attribute |
| 9 | **disappear** | past | last |  |  | mist and clouds |  | entirely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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