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title: The bullets and shells flew over the soldiers' heads, and into their… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bullets and shells flew over the soldiers' heads, and into their heads--into their bodies and limbs; but still they pressed forward. Who acts: bullets. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 67

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The bullets and shells flew over the soldiers' heads, and into their heads--into their bodies and limbs; but still they pressed forward.

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**Who acts:** bullets · **What happens:** fly, press forward · **To what, where:** heads

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullets), 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:pg27200:39:67
# text = The bullets and shells flew over the soldiers' heads, and into their heads--into their bodies and limbs; but still they pressed forward.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bullets	bullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the bullets and shells |  |  | the soldiers's heads |  | into bullets's heads and bullets's bodies and limbs | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
| 2 | **press forward** | past | bullets *= bullet* |  |  |  | still | forward *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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