--- title: The wind could have told that his only protector was an artist, who,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The wind could have told that his only protector was an artist, who, by reading each leaf to him, made it plain; and that they amused themselves by playing at nine-pins together. Who acts: only protector, artist, leaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (writ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/52/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/) / 52 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 52 The wind could have told that his only protector was an artist, who, by reading each leaf to him, made it plain; and that they amused themselves by playing at nine-pins together. **Who acts:** only protector, artist, leaves · **What happens:** tell, be, read, make, amuse, play · **To what, where:** wind, artist, leaf, protector, leaves, nine pins · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (only protector, artist, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:129:52 # text = The wind could have told that his only protector was an artist, who, by reading each leaf to him, made it plain; and that they amused themselves by playing at nine-pins together. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 protector protector NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 artist artist NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 amused amuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obj _ _ 32 by by SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 pins pin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 together together ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could · perfect · passive | | the wind | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | past | wind's only protector | a artist | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **read** | gerund | a artist | each leaf | wind | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent leaf=Topic to he=Recipient | | 4 | **make** | past | | protector | | | | plain *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 5 | **amuse** | past | leaves *= leaf* | leaves *= leaf* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | | 6 | **play** | gerund | leaves *= leaf* *not said here* | | | nine pins | | together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/53/) - ↑ back to [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/)