--- title: I flew with my brothers and sisters over beautiful flowers, and acro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: I flew with my brothers and sisters over beautiful flowers, and across the clear, bright sea, which reflected the waving foliage in its glittering depths; and I have seen many gay parrots, who could relate long and delightful stories. Who acts: I, clear bright sea, many gay parrots. A sentence of «F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/112/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/) / 112 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 112 I flew with my brothers and sisters over beautiful flowers, and across the clear, bright sea, which reflected the waving foliage in its glittering depths; and I have seen many gay parrots, who could relate long and delightful stories. **Who acts:** I, clear bright sea, many gay parrots · **What happens:** fly, reflect, wave, glitter, see, relate · **To what, where:** beautiful flowers, waving foliage, glittering depths, many gay parrots, long stories This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, clear bright sea, many gay parrots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:44:112 # text = I flew with my brothers and sisters over beautiful flowers, and across the clear, bright sea, which reflected the waving foliage in its glittering depths; and I have seen many gay parrots, who could relate long and delightful stories. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 across across ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 reflected reflect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 foliage foliage NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 gay gay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 relate relate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 44 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | I | | | beautiful flowers | | with my brothers and sisters | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over flower=Location | | 2 | **reflect** | past | the clear bright sea | the waving foliage | | foliage's glittering depths | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wave** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **glitter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | present · perfect | I | many gay parrots | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus | | 6 | **relate** | could | many gay parrots | long stories | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/113/) - ↑ back to [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/)