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title: Something in their manner of flying seemed to say to me, 'Look caref… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Something in their manner of flying seemed to say to me, 'Look carefully now; there is one not all swan, only swan's feathers.' Who acts: manner, Something, one swan. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 33

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Something in their manner of flying seemed to say to me, 'Look carefully now; there is one not all swan, only swan's feathers.'

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**Who acts:** manner, Something, one swan · **What happens:** fly, seem, say, look, be · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, Something, one swan), 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:pg27200:83:33
# text = Something in their manner of flying seemed to say to me, 'Look carefully now; there is one not all swan, only swan's feathers.'
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund | rushes's manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | Something |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Something *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | Something *not said here* |  |  |  | now | carefully *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **does** | present | all one swan and swan feathers |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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