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title: Dive down now!' they cried; 'thou shalt never more fly in the swan's… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Dive down now!' they cried; 'thou shalt never more fly in the swan's plumage, thou shalt never again see Egypt; here, on the moor, thou wilt remain.' Who acts: you, others, thou. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 44

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Dive down now!' they cried; 'thou shalt never more fly in the swan's plumage, thou shalt never again see Egypt; here, on the moor, thou wilt remain.'

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**Who acts:** you, others, thou · **What happens:** dive down, cry, fly, see, remain · **To what, where:** moor, plumage, Egypt

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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 (you, others, thou), 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:pg27200:83:44
# text = Dive down now!' they cried; 'thou shalt never more fly in the swan's plumage, thou shalt never again see Egypt; here, on the moor, thou wilt remain.'
1	Dive	dive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
22	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
26	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nsubj	_	_
35	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the moor; here | now | down *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on moor=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | shall | thou |  |  | the swan's plumage |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plumage=Location |
| 4 | **see** | shall | thou | Egypt |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egypt=Stimulus |
| 5 | **remain** | future | thou |  |  |  |  |  | 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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