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title: Onward the whole day they flew through the air like a winged arrow,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Onward the whole day they flew through the air like a winged arrow, yet more slowly than usual, for they had their sister to carry. Who acts: clouds, sister. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 22

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Onward the whole day they flew through the air like a winged arrow, yet more slowly than usual, for they had their sister to carry.

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**Who acts:** clouds, sister · **What happens:** fly, wing, have, carry · **To what, where:** air, sister

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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 (clouds, sister), 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:pg27200:209:22
# text = Onward the whole day they flew through the air like a winged arrow, yet more slowly than usual, for they had their sister to carry.
1	Onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | clouds *= cloud* |  |  | the air | day | like a winged arrow; slowly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 2 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | clouds *= cloud* | clouds's sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | clouds's sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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