--- title: The East Wind took the prince in his arms, and carried him over, whi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The East Wind took the prince in his arms, and carried him over, while the flowers and the leaves sang the sweet songs of his childhood in tones so full and soft that no human voice could venture to imitate. Who acts: East Wind, flowers, human voice, childhood. 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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, flowers, human voice, childhood), 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:pg27200:140:166 # text = The East Wind took the prince in his arms, and carried him over, while the flowers and the leaves sang the sweet songs of his childhood in tones so full and soft that no human voice could venture to imitate. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 over over ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 childhood childhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 37 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 venture venture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 imitate imitate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the East Wind | the prince | | prince's arms | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Value in arm=Location | | 2 | **carry over** | past | | prince | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the flowers and the leaves | the sweet songs of leaf's childhood in tones | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 4 | **venture** | could | no human voice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **imitate** | to-infinitive | no human voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sing** | | leaf's childhood in tones | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/165/) - next →: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/167/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)