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title: Then Death longed to go and see his garden, and floated out through… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Death longed to go and see his garden, and floated out through the window in the form of a cold, white mist. Who acts: Death. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 141

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Then Death longed to go and see his garden, and floated out through the window in the form of a cold, white mist.

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**Who acts:** Death · **What happens:** long, go, see, float out, form · **To what, where:** garden, window, cold white mist

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death), 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:pg27200:125:141
# text = Then Death longed to go and see his garden, and floated out through the window in the form of a cold, white mist.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	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 | **long** | past | Death |  |  |  | then |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Death *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Death *not said here* | Death's garden |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus |
| 4 | **float out** | participle | Death *not said here* |  |  | the window |  | in the form of a cold white mist | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through window=Source in form=Trajectory |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | a cold white mist |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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