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title: But he never returned; for by this time he had flown far away into t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But he never returned; for by this time he had flown far away into the lovely green forest. Who acts: wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 135

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But he never returned; for by this time he had flown far away into the lovely green forest.

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**Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** not return, fly · **To what, where:** time, lovely green forest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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:pg27200:79:135
# text = But he never returned; for by this time he had flown far away into the lovely green forest.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **not** **return** | past | wind |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past · perfect | wind | this time *not said here* |  | the lovely green forest |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent time=Theme into forest=Trajectory |

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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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