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title: So the East Wind kissed him on the forehead, and said, "Be firm; the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So the East Wind kissed him on the forehead, and said, "Be firm; then shall we meet again when a hundred years have passed. Who acts: East Wind, we. 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 every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 210

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So the East Wind kissed him on the forehead, and said, "Be firm; then shall we meet again when a hundred years have passed.

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**Who acts:** East Wind, we · **What happens:** kiss, say, be, meet, pass · **To what, where:** prince, forehead, hundred years · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, we), 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:pg27200:140:210
# text = So the East Wind kissed him on the forehead, and said, "Be firm; then shall we meet again when a hundred years have passed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
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	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | the East Wind | prince |  | the forehead |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the East Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | firm *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  | then; again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pass** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | a hundred years |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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