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title: The wind blew stormy and cold, the clouds flew hurriedly past; only… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind blew stormy and cold, the clouds flew hurriedly past; only for a moment now and then did the Moon become visible. Who acts: wind, clouds, Moon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 1

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The wind blew stormy and cold, the clouds flew hurriedly past; only for a moment now and then did the Moon become visible.

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**Who acts:** wind, clouds, Moon · **What happens:** blow, fly, do, become

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, clouds, Moon), 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:pg27200:122:1
# text = The wind blew stormy and cold, the clouds flew hurriedly past; only for a moment now and then did the Moon become visible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	past	past	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the wind |  |  |  | moment | stormy *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the clouds |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | present | the Moon |  |  |  |  | visible *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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