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title: The wind roared around it, and could have readily related the story… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind roared around it, and could have readily related the story of its origin and of its sweet chimes, and the wind could also tell of him to whom he had brought fresh air when, in the woods of a neighboring country, he had sunk down exhausted with fatigue, with no other worldly possessions than
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 51

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The wind roared around it, and could have readily related the story of its origin and of its sweet chimes, and the wind could also tell of him to whom he had brought fresh air when, in the woods of a neighboring country, he had sunk down exhausted with fatigue, with no other worldly possessions than hope for the future, and a written leaf from "Fiesco."

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**Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** roar, relate, tell, bring, neighbor, sink down · **To what, where:** written leaf, comfort, story, fresh air, woods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg27200:129:51
# text = The wind roared around it, and could have readily related the story of its origin and of its sweet chimes, and the wind could also tell of him to whom he had brought fresh air when, in the woods of a neighboring country, he had sunk down exhausted with fatigue, with no other worldly possessions than hope for the future, and a written leaf from "Fiesco."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
10	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chimes	chime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	ccomp	_	_
36	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	amod	_	_
46	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	parataxis	_	_
51	down	down	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	conj	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	60	det	_	_
58	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	worldly	worldly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
61	than	than	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
63	for	for	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
69	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	70	amod	_	_
70	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
71	from	from	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	Fiesco	Fiesco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	70	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	73	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | past | the wind | a written leaf from Fiesco |  | comfort |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Location |
| 2 | **relate** | could · perfect | the wind *not said here* | the story of comfort's origin and comfort's sweet chimes |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | the wind |  |  |  |  | of Marbach | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect | wind | fresh air |  | the woods of a neighboring country |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent air=Theme to whom=Destination |
| 5 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sink down** | past · perfect | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **exhaust** | participle | wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fatigue; with no other worldly possessions than hope for the future | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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