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title: Then they swooped towards the forest, where every sound had been sil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they swooped towards the forest, where every sound had been silenced as if by magic, every breath hushed, every bird mute. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 96

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Then they swooped towards the forest, where every sound had been silenced as if by magic, every breath hushed, every bird mute.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** swoop, silence, hush · **To what, where:** bird mute, sound, breath

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg27200:214:96
# text = Then they swooped towards the forest, where every sound had been silenced as if by magic, every breath hushed, every bird mute.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	silenced	silence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	hushed	hush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	mute	mute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoop** | past | eyes *= eye* | every bird mute |  |  | then | towards the forest | tree rules |
| 2 | **silence** | past · perfect · passive |  | every sound |  |  |  | as magic | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **hush** | participle |  | every breath *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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