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title: "He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little che… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little cherubs peeped out from the folds." Who acts: angel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 102

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"He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little cherubs peeped out from the folds."

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**Who acts:** angel · **What happens:** fly, cry, peep out · **To what, where:** mantle, another, lovely little cherubs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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:pg27200:35:102
# text = "He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little cherubs peeped out from the folds."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cherubs	cherub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
19	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** *in a quote* | past | angel |  |  | a mantle of fire |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in mantle=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | angel *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic |
| 3 | **peep out** *in a quote* | participle |  | lovely little cherubs *not said here* |  |  |  | from the folds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from fold=Theme |

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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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