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title: When suddenly the avenging angel drew back the veil from the flaming… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When suddenly the avenging angel drew back the veil from the flaming ocean of sunlight, and in a moment the wings of the proud bird were scorched and shrivelled, and they sunk miserably to the earth. Who acts: avenging angel, wings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 36

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When suddenly the avenging angel drew back the veil from the flaming ocean of sunlight, and in a moment the wings of the proud bird were scorched and shrivelled, and they sunk miserably to the earth.

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**Who acts:** avenging angel, wings · **What happens:** avenge, draw back, scorch, shrivell, sink · **To what, where:** veil, flaming ocean, 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 (avenging angel, wings), 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:pg27200:88:36
# text = When suddenly the avenging angel drew back the veil from the flaming ocean of sunlight, and in a moment the wings of the proud bird were scorched and shrivelled, and they sunk miserably to the earth.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	avenging	avenge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sunk	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avenge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw back** | past | the avenging angel | the veil |  | the flaming ocean of sunlight |  | suddenly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent veil=Theme from ocean=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **scorch** | past · passive |  | the wings of the proud bird |  |  | moment |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **shrivell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sink** | past | wings *= wing* |  |  |  |  | to the earth; miserably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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