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title: Then the East Wind spread his broad pinions, which shone like the li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the East Wind spread his broad pinions, which shone like the lightning in harvest, or as the northern lights in a cold winter. Who acts: East Wind, broad pinions. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 212

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Then the East Wind spread his broad pinions, which shone like the lightning in harvest, or as the northern lights in a cold winter.

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**Who acts:** East Wind, broad pinions · **What happens:** spread, shine · **To what, where:** broad pinions, harvest

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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, broad pinions), 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:pg27200:140:212
# text = Then the East Wind spread his broad pinions, which shone like the lightning in harvest, or as the northern lights in a cold winter.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	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	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pinions	pinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the East Wind | prince's broad pinions |  |  | then | as the northern lights in a cold winter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pinion=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | past | prince's broad pinions |  |  | harvest |  | like the lightning | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in harvest=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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