--- title: As she stretched out her hand to her father, the powers of evil dash… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: As she stretched out her hand to her father, the powers of evil dashed with the fury of a hurricane over the Tree of the Sun; a blast of wind rushed through the open doors, and into the sanctuary, where lay the Book of Truth. Who acts: plenty. 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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 (plenty), 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:pg27200:143:236 # text = As she stretched out her hand to her father, the powers of evil dashed with the fury of a hurricane over the Tree of the Sun; a blast of wind rushed through the open doors, and into the sanctuary, where lay the Book of Truth. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 dashed dash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fury fury NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hurricane hurricane NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Tree Tree PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 blast blast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 sanctuary sanctuary NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 45 advmod _ _ 45 lay lay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 42 parataxis _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Truth Truth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch out** | past | plenty | plenty's hand | | | | to plenty's father and the powers of evil *result*; a blast of wind and the sanctuary *obl* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to father=Result | | 2 | **dash** | participle | | evil *not said here* | | | | with the fury of a hurricane over the Tree of the Sun | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fury=Instrument | | 3 | **rush** | participle | | wind *not said here* | | the open doors | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Trajectory | | 4 | **lay** | infinitive | | the Book of Truth | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result | | 5 | **infuriate** | | | a hurricane over the Tree of the Sun | | | | | nom fury «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **blast** | | | wind | | | | | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 235](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/235/) - next →: [sentence 237](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/237/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)