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title: The swans shook their heads, for what she beheld were the beautiful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The swans shook their heads, for what she beheld were the beautiful ever-changing cloud palaces of the "Fata Morgana," into which no mortal can enter. Who acts: swans, head, mortal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 43

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The swans shook their heads, for what she beheld were the beautiful ever-changing cloud palaces of the "Fata Morgana," into which no mortal can enter.

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**Who acts:** swans, head, mortal · **What happens:** shake, behold, change, be, enter · **To what, where:** heads, beautiful changing cloud palaces

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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 (swans, head, mortal), 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:pg27200:209:43
# text = The swans shook their heads, for what she beheld were the beautiful ever-changing cloud palaces of the "Fata Morgana," into which no mortal can enter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Fata	Fata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Morgana	Morgana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | the swans | swans's heads |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **behold** | past | head |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **change** | gerund |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the beautiful changing cloud palaces |  |  |  | of the Fata Morgana | tree rules |
| 5 | **enter** | can | no mortal |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial\_Location |

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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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