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title: Very soon he perceived in the distance, waving flags, on which glitt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon he perceived in the distance, waving flags, on which glittered a white cross on a red ground--the standard of the Danes as well as of the Swiss--and before him lay Interlachen. Who acts: foliage. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 107

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Very soon he perceived in the distance, waving flags, on which glittered a white cross on a red ground--the standard of the Danes as well as of the Swiss--and before him lay Interlachen.

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**Who acts:** foliage · **What happens:** perceive, wave, glitter, lie · **To what, where:** flags, white cross, red ground, Interlachen

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foliage), 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:pg27200:55:107
# text = Very soon he perceived in the distance, waving flags, on which glittered a white cross on a red ground--the standard of the Danes as well as of the Swiss--and before him lay Interlachen.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	33	cc	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	fixed	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | foliage |  |  |  |  | in the distance; soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund | foliage *not said here* | flags |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient |
| 3 | **glitter** | past |  | a white cross |  | a red ground |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cross=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past | foliage | Interlachen |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location interlachen=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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