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title: Higher and higher rose the eagles up into the air; then God sent one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Higher and higher rose the eagles up into the air; then God sent one of his numberless angels against the ship. Who acts: God. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 20

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Higher and higher rose the eagles up into the air; then God sent one of his numberless angels against the ship.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** rise up, send · **To what, where:** eagles, air, one

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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 (God), 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:pg27200:207:20
# text = Higher and higher rose the eagles up into the air; then God sent one of his numberless angels against the ship.
1	Higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	numberless	numberless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past |  | the eagles |  | the air |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eagle=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | God | one of God's numberless angels against the ship |  |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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