--- title: He was seated on the back of the East Wind, who held him faithfully;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He was seated on the back of the East Wind, who held him faithfully; and they were so high in the air that woods and fields, rivers and lakes, as they lay beneath them, looked like a painted map. Who acts: East Wind, Winds, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (East Wind, Winds, that), 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:pg27200:140:131 # text = He was seated on the back of the East Wind, who held him faithfully; and they were so high in the air that woods and fields, rivers and lakes, as they lay beneath them, looked like a painted map. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 faithfully faithfully ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 37 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 44 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seat** | past · passive | | prince | | the back of the East Wind | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | | 2 | **hold** | past | the East Wind | prince | | | | faithfully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Winds *= wind* | | | the air and woods and fields and rivers and lakes | | high *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **wood** | | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lay** | present | Winds *= wind* | | | | | beneath lakes *= lake* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beneath they=Destination | | 6 | **look** | past | Winds *= wind* *not said here* | | | | | like a painted map | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «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 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/130/) - next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/132/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)