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title: Over woodland and heath, flood and fen, they flew on, till they reac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Over woodland and heath, flood and fen, they flew on, till they reached the wild moor, over which they hovered in broad circles. Who acts: goblins. 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 7

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Over woodland and heath, flood and fen, they flew on, till they reached the wild moor, over which they hovered in broad circles.

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**Who acts:** goblins · **What happens:** fly, reach, hover · **To what, where:** woodland, wild moor

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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 (goblins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:6386`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:87:7
# text = Over woodland and heath, flood and fen, they flew on, till they reached the wild moor, over which they hovered in broad circles.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	woodland	woodland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fen	fen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hovered	hover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | goblins *= goblin* |  |  | woodland and heath and flood and fen |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over woodland=Location |
| 2 | **reach** | past | goblins *= goblin* | the wild moor |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent moor=Theme |
| 3 | **hover** | past | goblins *= goblin* |  |  | the wild moor |  | in broad circles | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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