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title: It was late in the autumn; the vine-leaves still hung upon the branc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was late in the autumn; the vine-leaves still hung upon the branches of the vines, but they were already tinted with red and gold; heavy showers fell on the surrounding country, and the cold autumn wind blew sharp and strong. Who acts: town, vine leaves, heavy showers, cold autumn wind. A sentenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 3

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It was late in the autumn; the vine-leaves still hung upon the branches of the vines, but they were already tinted with red and gold; heavy showers fell on the surrounding country, and the cold autumn wind blew sharp and strong.

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**Who acts:** town, vine leaves, heavy showers, cold autumn wind · **What happens:** be, hang, tint, fall, blow · **To what, where:** branches, leaves, surrounding country

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, vine leaves, heavy showers, cold autumn wind), 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:pg27200:129:3
# text = It was late in the autumn; the vine-leaves still hung upon the branches of the vines, but they were already tinted with red and gold; heavy showers fell on the surrounding country, and the cold autumn wind blew sharp and strong.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	already	already	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	tinted	tint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
45	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | town |  |  |  | autumn | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | past | the vine leaves |  |  | the branches of the vines | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon branch=Location |
| 3 | **tint** | past · passive |  | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  | with red and gold | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past | heavy showers |  |  | the surrounding country |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on country=Location |
| 5 | **blow** | past | the cold autumn wind |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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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