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title: It was the over-abundance of youthful spirits unfolding its wings fo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the over-abundance of youthful spirits unfolding its wings for a daring flight. Who acts: more, youthful spirits. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 29

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It was the over-abundance of youthful spirits unfolding its wings for a daring flight.

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**Who acts:** more, youthful spirits · **What happens:** be, unfold · **To what, where:** over-abundance, wings

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more, youthful spirits), 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:pg27200:88:29
# text = It was the over-abundance of youthful spirits unfolding its wings for a daring flight.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	over-abundance	over-abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	unfolding	unfold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	daring	daring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | more | the over-abundance |  |  |  | of youthful spirits | tree rules |
| 2 | **unfold** | gerund | youthful spirits *not said here* | more's wings |  |  |  | for a daring flight | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=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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