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title: He raises his head, and--" But at this moment a cloud passed before… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He raises his head, and--" But at this moment a cloud passed before the Moon, and then another. Who acts: lion. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 22

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He raises his head, and--" But at this moment a cloud passed before the Moon, and then another.

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**Who acts:** lion · **What happens:** raise, pass · **To what, where:** head, cloud, Moon

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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:pg27200:111:22
# text = He raises his head, and--" But at this moment a cloud passed before the Moon, and then another.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
9	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | lion | lion's head |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** *in a quote* | participle |  | a cloud *not said here* |  | the Moon |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before moon=Location |

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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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