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title: But the East Wind answered not a word, only pointed forwards to a lo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the East Wind answered not a word, only pointed forwards to a lovely blue light which gleamed in the distance. Who acts: East Wind, lovely blue light. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 160

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But the East Wind answered not a word, only pointed forwards to a lovely blue light which gleamed in the distance.

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**Who acts:** East Wind, lovely blue light · **What happens:** not answer, gleam · **To what, where:** word

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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, lovely blue light), 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:pg27200:140:160
# text = But the East Wind answered not a word, only pointed forwards to a lovely blue light which gleamed in the distance.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	forwards	forward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the East Wind | a word  pointed forwards to a lovely blue light |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gleam** | past | a lovely blue light |  |  |  |  | in the distance | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location |

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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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