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title: Then beautiful Helga rose as a mighty swan, and spread her wings wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then beautiful Helga rose as a mighty swan, and spread her wings with the rushing sound of troops of birds of passage flying through the air. Who acts: beautiful Helga, passage. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 86

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Then beautiful Helga rose as a mighty swan, and spread her wings with the rushing sound of troops of birds of passage flying through the air.

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**Who acts:** beautiful Helga, passage · **What happens:** rise, spread, rush, fly · **To what, where:** wings, air

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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 (beautiful Helga, passage), 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:pg27200:87:86
# text = Then beautiful Helga rose as a mighty swan, and spread her wings with the rushing sound of troops of birds of passage flying through the air.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | beautiful Helga |  |  |  | then | as a mighty swan | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spread** | past | beautiful Helga *not said here* | Helga's wings |  |  |  | with the rushing sound of troops of birds of passage | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Destination with sound=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | passage *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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