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title: A keen wind from the desert would howl around you; cold rain fall on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A keen wind from the desert would howl around you; cold rain fall on your head, and sorrow and woe be your future lot." Who acts: keen wind, cold rain, sorrow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 208

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A keen wind from the desert would howl around you; cold rain fall on your head, and sorrow and woe be your future lot."

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**Who acts:** keen wind, cold rain, sorrow · **What happens:** howl, fall, be · **To what, where:** head, future lot

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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 (keen wind, cold rain, sorrow), 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:pg27200:140:208
# text = A keen wind from the desert would howl around you; cold rain fall on your head, and sorrow and woe be your future lot."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	howl	howl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | would | a keen wind from the desert |  |  |  |  | around you | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around you=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive | cold rain |  |  | your head |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | sorrow and woe | your future lot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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