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title: The sunbeams fell on her face, therefore one of the swans soared ove… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sunbeams fell on her face, therefore one of the swans soared over her head, so that his broad wings might shade her. Who acts: sunbeams, swans, broad wings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 14

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The sunbeams fell on her face, therefore one of the swans soared over her head, so that his broad wings might shade her.

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**Who acts:** sunbeams, swans, broad wings · **What happens:** fall, soar, shade · **To what, where:** one, face, head, Eliza

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeams, swans, broad wings), 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:pg27200:209:14
# text = The sunbeams fell on her face, therefore one of the swans soared over her head, so that his broad wings might shade her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	shade	shade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the sunbeams | one |  | Eliza's face |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
| 2 | **soar** | past | the swans |  |  | Eliza's head |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory |
| 3 | **shade** | might | sun's broad wings |  | Eliza |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |

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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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