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title: "And the lotus-flower which I was to take with me," said the Egyptia… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "And the lotus-flower which I was to take with me," said the Egyptian princess, "is flying here by my side, clothed in swan's feathers. Who acts: Egyptian princess. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 55

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"And the lotus-flower which I was to take with me," said the Egyptian princess, "is flying here by my side, clothed in swan's feathers.

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**Who acts:** Egyptian princess · **What happens:** be, say, fly, clothe · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egyptian princess), 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:pg27200:87:55
# text = "And the lotus-flower which I was to take with me," said the Egyptian princess, "is flying here by my side, clothed in swan's feathers.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the Egyptian princess *= princess* |  |  |  |  | with the Egyptian princess *= princess*; take *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Egyptian princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Egyptian princess *not said here* |  |  | here |  | by my side | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location |
| 4 | **clothe** *in a quote* | participle | the Egyptian princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in swan's feathers | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in feather=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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