--- title: And a gentle wind arose, and crisped the quiet surface, which gleame… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And a gentle wind arose, and crisped the quiet surface, which gleamed like the clouds that poured along in great broad waves; and the swan raised his head, and the glowing water splashed like blue fire over his breast and back. Who acts: gentle wind, quiet surface, clouds, swan. 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C. Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentle wind, quiet surface, clouds, swan), 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:pg27200:118:6 # text = And a gentle wind arose, and crisped the quiet surface, which gleamed like the clouds that poured along in great broad waves; and the swan raised his head, and the glowing water splashed like blue fire over his breast and back. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 crisped crisp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gleamed gleam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 along along ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 amod _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 splashed splash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 back back ADV RB _ 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arise** | past | a gentle wind | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **crisp** | past | a gentle wind *not said here* | the quiet surface | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent surface=Patient | | 3 | **gleam** | past | the quiet surface | | | | | like the clouds | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pour** | past | the clouds | | | great broad waves | | along *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **raise** | past | the swan | wind's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 6 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **splash** | participle | the glowing water | | | head's breast | | like blue fire | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over breast=Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/7/) - ↑ back to [Twenty-seventh Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/)