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title: If the seaman loosens one knot, then he has a good wind; if a second… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If the seaman loosens one knot, then he has a good wind; if a second, then it blows pretty stiffly; if he undoes the third and fourth, then it rages so that the forests are upturned. Who acts: seaman, knot. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its de
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 112

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If the seaman loosens one knot, then he has a good wind; if a second, then it blows pretty stiffly; if he undoes the third and fourth, then it rages so that the forests are upturned.

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**Who acts:** seaman, knot · **What happens:** loosen, have, blow, undo, rage, upturn · **To what, where:** one knot, good wind, third, forests

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seaman, knot), 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:pg1597:14:112
# text = If the seaman loosens one knot, then he has a good wind; if a second, then it blows pretty stiffly; if he undoes the third and fourth, then it rages so that the forests are upturned.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seaman	seaman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loosens	loosen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	undoes	undo	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	rages	rage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	upturned	upturn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loosen** | present | the seaman | one knot |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knot=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | seaman | a good wind |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient |
| 3 | **blow** | present | knot |  |  |  | then | stiffly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **undo** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | seaman | the third |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient |
| 5 | **rage** | present | knot |  |  |  | then |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **upturn** | present · passive |  | the forests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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