--- title: The wind could also describe the pale fugitive, who, for weeks and m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The wind could also describe the pale fugitive, who, for weeks and months, lay in a wretched little road-side inn, where the landlord got drunk and raved, and where the merry-makers had it all their own way. Who acts: wind, landlord, merry makers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderse --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/53/) [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/) / 53 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 53 The wind could also describe the pale fugitive, who, for weeks and months, lay in a wretched little road-side inn, where the landlord got drunk and raved, and where the merry-makers had it all their own way. **Who acts:** wind, landlord, merry makers · **What happens:** describe, lay, get, rave, have · **To what, where:** pale fugitive, wretched little road side inn, landlord 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, landlord, merry makers), 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:pg27200:129:53 # text = The wind could also describe the pale fugitive, who, for weeks and months, lay in a wretched little road-side inn, where the landlord got drunk and raved, and where the merry-makers had it all their own way. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 describe describe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fugitive fugitive NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 20 wretched wretched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 drunk drunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 raved rave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 makers maker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 46 det:predet _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | could | the wind | the pale fugitive | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent fugitive=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | present | the wind *not said here* | | | a wretched little road side inn | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in inn=Destination | | 3 | **get** | past | the landlord | | | | | drunk *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **rave** *speech: other* | participle | the landlord *not said here* | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | past | the merry makers | landlord | | | | | tree rules | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/54/) - ↑ back to [(written For the Schiller Album)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/)