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title: The crows flew past him by hundreds across the old trees, and scream… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The crows flew past him by hundreds across the old trees, and screamed, "Krah! da!--Krah! da!" Who acts: crows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 50

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The crows flew past him by hundreds across the old trees, and screamed, "Krah! da!--Krah! da!"

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**Who acts:** crows · **What happens:** fly, scream · **To what, where:** old trees, Krah da

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crows), 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:pg27200:211:50
# text = The crows flew past him by hundreds across the old trees, and screamed, "Krah! da!--Krah! da!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Krah	Krah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	da	da	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Krah	Krah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	da	da	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the crows |  |  | the old trees |  | past man; by hundreds | tree rules |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the crows *not said here* | Krah da |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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