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title: The cold wind whistled, and therefore the little girl nestled closer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The cold wind whistled, and therefore the little girl nestled closer to the mother, who, looking up at my decreasing disc, thought of the bitter want at home, and spoke of the heavy taxes they had not been able to raise. Who acts: cold wind, little girl, mother, bitter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 7

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The cold wind whistled, and therefore the little girl nestled closer to the mother, who, looking up at my decreasing disc, thought of the bitter want at home, and spoke of the heavy taxes they had not been able to raise.

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**Who acts:** cold wind, little girl, mother, bitter, mothers · **What happens:** whistle, nestle, look up, decrease, think, want · **To what, where:** home, heavy taxes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cold wind, little girl, mother, bitter), 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:pg27200:105:7
# text = The cold wind whistled, and therefore the little girl nestled closer to the mother, who, looking up at my decreasing disc, thought of the bitter want at home, and spoke of the heavy taxes they had not been able to raise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	nestled	nestle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	decreasing	decrease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
30	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	cop	_	_
44	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whistle** | past | the cold wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **nestle** | past | the little girl |  |  |  |  | to the mother; close, therefore *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund | the mother |  |  |  |  | at my decreasing disc | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at disc=Theme |
| 4 | **decrease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | the little girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **want** | present | the bitter |  |  | home |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the heavy taxes | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | mothers *= mother* | the heavy taxes *not said here* |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **raise** | to-infinitive | mothers *= mother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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