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title: Then it appeared to her as if she were flying high in the air, towar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it appeared to her as if she were flying high in the air, towards the cloudy palace of the "Fata Morgana," and a fairy came out to meet her, radiant and beautiful in appearance, and yet very much like the old woman who had given her berries in the wood, and who had told her of the swans with go
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 52

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Then it appeared to her as if she were flying high in the air, towards the cloudy palace of the "Fata Morgana," and a fairy came out to meet her, radiant and beautiful in appearance, and yet very much like the old woman who had given her berries in the wood, and who had told her of the swans with golden crowns on their heads. "

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**Who acts:** it, thought, fairy, old woman · **What happens:** appear, fly, come out, meet, give, tell · **To what, where:** thought, air, berries, wood, heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (it, thought, fairy, old woman), 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:pg27200:209:52
# text = Then it appeared to her as if she were flying high in the air, towards the cloudy palace of the "Fata Morgana," and a fairy came out to meet her, radiant and beautiful in appearance, and yet very much like the old woman who had given her berries in the wood, and who had told her of the swans with golden crowns on their heads. "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Fata	Fata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	Morgana	Morgana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	radiant	radiant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
43	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	very	very	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	much	much	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
46	like	like	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
61	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
63	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	iobj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
67	with	with	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	nmod	_	_
70	on	on	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
72	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
74	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | it |  | thought |  | then | like the old woman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past · progressive | thought |  |  | the air |  | towards the cloudy palace of the Fata; high *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
| 3 | **come out** | past | a fairy |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | a fairy *not said here* | thought |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | past · perfect | the old woman | thought's berries |  | the wood |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect |  |  | thought | crowns's heads |  | of the swans with golden crowns | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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