--- title: But when the spring, with a gentle stirring motion, announced her ar… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But when the spring, with a gentle stirring motion, announced her arrival, a new and busy life arose; with songs and hurrahs the ice was sawn asunder, the ships were fresh tarred and rigged, that they might sail away to distant lands. Who acts: spring, new life, ships, crow. 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C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (spring, new life, ships, crow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:8:47 # text = But when the spring, with a gentle stirring motion, announced her arrival, a new and busy life arose; with songs and hurrahs the ice was sawn asunder, the ships were fresh tarred and rigged, that they might sail away to distant lands. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 stirring stirring NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 hurrahs hurrah VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 sawn sawn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 ccomp _ _ 31 asunder asunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 parataxis _ _ 37 tarred tar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 csubj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 rigged rig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 45 away away ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the spring | crow's arrival | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme | | 2 | **arise** | past | a new life | | | | | with songs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hurrah** | present | a new life *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sawn** | past · passive | | the ice | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the ships | | | | | fresh *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **tar** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **rig** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sail away** | might | ships *= ship* | | | distant lands | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to land=Trajectory | | 9 | **arrive** | | crow | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/48/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/)