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title: Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named Eliza. Who acts: swallows, land, king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 1

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Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named Eliza.

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**Who acts:** swallows, land, king · **What happens:** fly, be, dwell, have, name · **To what, where:** land, winter, king, eleven sons, one daughter

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (swallows, land, king), 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:pg27200:208:1
# text = Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named Eliza.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
29	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | the swallows |  |  | the land |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | land | winter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | the swallows *not said here* | a king |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | a king | eleven sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 5 | **name** | participle · passive |  | one daughter |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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