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title: But the sign of the cross made the airy phantom strong, and then the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the sign of the cross made the airy phantom strong, and then the three rode away from the marsh to firm ground. Who acts: sign, three. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 16

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But the sign of the cross made the airy phantom strong, and then the three rode away from the marsh to firm ground.

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**Who acts:** sign, three · **What happens:** make, ride away, sign · **To what, where:** airy phantom, firm ground, marsh, cross

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign, three), 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:pg27200:87:16
# text = But the sign of the cross made the airy phantom strong, and then the three rode away from the marsh to firm ground.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	phantom	phantom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the sign of the cross | the airy phantom |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset phantom=Product |
| 2 | **ride away** | past | the three | firm ground |  | the marsh |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from marsh=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | the cross |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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