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title: His young and beautiful daughter who, in swan's plumage, had flown o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His young and beautiful daughter who, in swan's plumage, had flown over land and seas to the distant north, had never returned. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 67

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His young and beautiful daughter who, in swan's plumage, had flown over land and seas to the distant north, had never returned.

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**What happens:** fly, not return · **To what, where:** plumage, land

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:84:67
# text = His young and beautiful daughter who, in swan's plumage, had flown over land and seas to the distant north, had never returned.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past · perfect |  | swan's plumage *not said here* |  | land and seas |  | to the distant north | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location |
| 2 | **not** **return** | past · perfect · passive |  | swan's plumage |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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