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title: Every grain of truth which the keen wind carried up and whirled towa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every grain of truth which the keen wind carried up and whirled towards me I caught and treasured. Who acts: grain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 231

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Every grain of truth which the keen wind carried up and whirled towards me I caught and treasured.

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**Who acts:** grain · **What happens:** carry up, whirl, catch, treasure · **To what, where:** keen wind, I

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grain), 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:pg27200:143:231
# text = Every grain of truth which the keen wind carried up and whirled towards me I caught and treasured.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	treasured	treasure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry up** | participle |  | the keen wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **whirl** | participle · passive |  | I |  |  |  | towards me | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme towards i=Destination |
| 3 | **catch** | past | every grain of truth |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **treasure** | past | every grain of truth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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