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title: After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering; and thus it had looked when the good Knight Grubbe had lived here--when the old manor house stood with its thick red walls. Who acts: 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 13

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After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering; and thus it had looked when the good Knight Grubbe had lived here--when the old manor house stood with its thick red walls.

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**Who acts:** mist, whole lake, crows, good Knight Grubbe, old manor house · **What happens:** hang, be, flutter, look, live, stand · **To what, where:** moorland, it

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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 (mist, whole lake, crows, good Knight Grubbe), 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:pg27200:149:13
# text = After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering; and thus it had looked when the good Knight Grubbe had lived here--when the old manor house stood with its thick red walls.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moorland	moorland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	daws	daw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
39	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
46	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	manor	manor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
56	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the mist |  |  | the moorland | day | sometimes *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over moorland=Location |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a whole lake |  |  |  |  | as the old trees | tree rules |
| 3 | **flutter** | past · progressive | the crows and the daws |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among which=Location |
| 4 | **look** | past · perfect · passive |  | it |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **live** | past · perfect | the good Knight Grubbe |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | past | the old manor house |  |  |  |  | with house's thick red walls | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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