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title: The eleven brothers were seen no more, but eleven wild swans flew aw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The eleven brothers were seen no more, but eleven wild swans flew away over the castle. Who acts: eleven wild swans. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 25

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The eleven brothers were seen no more, but eleven wild swans flew away over the castle.

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**Who acts:** eleven wild swans · **What happens:** see, fly away · **To what, where:** eleven brothers, castle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven wild swans), 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:pg27200:210:25
# text = The eleven brothers were seen no more, but eleven wild swans flew away over the castle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | the eleven brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly away** | past | eleven wild swans |  |  | the castle |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over castle=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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