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title: My arm is strong enough to carry you through the wood; and will not… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: My arm is strong enough to carry you through the wood; and will not all our wings be strong enough to fly with you over the sea?" Who acts: arm, 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 pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 9

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My arm is strong enough to carry you through the wood; and will not all our wings be strong enough to fly with you over the sea?"

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**Who acts:** arm, wings · **What happens:** be, carry, fly · **To what, where:** you, wood, sea

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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 (arm, 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:pg27200:209:9
# text = My arm is strong enough to carry you through the wood; and will not all our wings be strong enough to fly with you over the sea?"
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My arm |  |  |  |  | enough, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | to-infinitive | My arm *not said here* | you |  | the wood |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | future | our wings |  |  |  |  | enough, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | to-infinitive | our wings *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  | with you | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=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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