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title: A storm approaches without, calling aloud for human lives. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A storm approaches without, calling aloud for human lives. Who acts: storm. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 121

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A storm approaches without, calling aloud for human lives.

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**Who acts:** storm · **What happens:** approach, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm), 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:pg27200:12:121
# text = A storm approaches without, calling aloud for human lives.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approaches	approach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | present | a storm |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | a storm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for human lives; aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for life=Recipient |

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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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