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title: In the air, danced myriads of gnats, swarm upon swarm, troops of buz… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the air, danced myriads of gnats, swarm upon swarm, troops of buzzing flies, ladybirds, dragon-flies with golden wings, and other little winged creatures. Who acts: other. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 67

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In the air, danced myriads of gnats, swarm upon swarm, troops of buzzing flies, ladybirds, dragon-flies with golden wings, and other little winged creatures.

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**Who acts:** other · **What happens:** dance, swarm, wing · **To what, where:** myriads, air, swarm, creatures

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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:pg27200:86:67
# text = In the air, danced myriads of gnats, swarm upon swarm, troops of buzzing flies, ladybirds, dragon-flies with golden wings, and other little winged creatures.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	myriads	myriad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	swarm	swarm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	swarm	swarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
30	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	winged	wing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past |  | myriads of gnats |  | the air |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location myriad=Theme |
| 2 | **swarm** | present |  |  |  | swarm and troops of buzzing flies and ladybirds and dragon flies with golden wings |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon swarm=Location |
| 3 | **wing** | past | other | creatures |  |  |  | little *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme creature=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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