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title: Day broke through the light clouds; country people went across the h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Day broke through the light clouds; country people went across the heath to church; the black-gowned women with their white head-dresses looked like ghosts that had stepped forth from the church pictures. Who acts: Day, country people, gowned women. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 17

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Day broke through the light clouds; country people went across the heath to church; the black-gowned women with their white head-dresses looked like ghosts that had stepped forth from the church pictures.

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**Who acts:** Day, country people, gowned women · **What happens:** break, go, gown, look, step · **To what, where:** light clouds, heath, ghosts, church pictures

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, country people, gowned women), 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:pg27200:105:17
# text = Day broke through the light clouds; country people went across the heath to church; the black-gowned women with their white head-dresses looked like ghosts that had stepped forth from the church pictures.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	gowned	gown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
28	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | Day |  |  | the light clouds |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cloud=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | country people |  |  | the heath |  | to church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across heath=Initial\_Location to church=Destination |
| 3 | **gown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past | the gowned women with women's white head dresses |  |  |  |  | like ghosts | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **step** | past · perfect · passive |  | ghosts |  | the church pictures |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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