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title: It was gray, wet weather; the wind grew cold, and a flight of black… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was gray, wet weather; the wind grew cold, and a flight of black screaming birds flew over her head. Who acts: bye, wind, flight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 106

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It was gray, wet weather; the wind grew cold, and a flight of black screaming birds flew over her head.

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**Who acts:** bye, wind, flight · **What happens:** be, grow, scream, fly · **To what, where:** head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bye, wind, flight), 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:pg27200:149:106
# text = It was gray, wet weather; the wind grew cold, and a flight of black screaming birds flew over her head.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | bye |  |  |  |  | gray *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | past | a flight of black screaming birds |  |  | flight's head |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=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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