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title: A great cloud floating behind them appeared like a vast mountain, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A great cloud floating behind them appeared like a vast mountain, and upon it Eliza saw her own shadow and those of the eleven swans, looking gigantic in size. Who acts: great cloud, Eliza. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 20

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A great cloud floating behind them appeared like a vast mountain, and upon it Eliza saw her own shadow and those of the eleven swans, looking gigantic in size.

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**Who acts:** great cloud, Eliza · **What happens:** float, appear, see, look, shadow · **To what, where:** own shadow

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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 (great cloud, Eliza), 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:pg27200:209:20
# text = A great cloud floating behind them appeared like a vast mountain, and upon it Eliza saw her own shadow and those of the eleven swans, looking gigantic in size.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
16	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
29	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund | a great cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind clouds *= cloud* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory |
| 2 | **appear** | past | a great cloud |  |  |  |  | like a vast mountain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Eliza | Eliza's own shadow  those |  |  |  | upon mountain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | Eliza *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gigantic *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **shadow** |  | Eliza |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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