--- title: A light wind filled the sails, and the young student sat down with h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: A light wind filled the sails, and the young student sat down with his face turned towards the fresh wind, and went to sleep, which was not exactly the most prudent thing he could have done. Who acts: light wind, young student, face, sleep. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/151/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/) / 151 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 151 A light wind filled the sails, and the young student sat down with his face turned towards the fresh wind, and went to sleep, which was not exactly the most prudent thing he could have done. **Who acts:** light wind, young student, face, sleep · **What happens:** fill, sit down, turn, go, not be, do · **To what, where:** sails, fresh wind, sleep, prudent thing 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 (light wind, young student, face, sleep), 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:pg27200:149:151 # text = A light wind filled the sails, and the young student sat down with his face turned towards the fresh wind, and went to sleep, which was not exactly the most prudent thing he could have done. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sails sail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 student student NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 with with SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 towards towards ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 31 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 34 advmod _ _ 34 prudent prudent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux _ _ 39 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past | a light wind | the sails | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sail=Patient | | 2 | **sit down** | past | the young student | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | past | castle's face | | | the fresh wind | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards wind=Trajectory | | 4 | **go** | past | the young student *not said here* | | | sleep | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **not** **is a** | past | sleep | the prudent thing | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | could · perfect | face | the prudent thing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | 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 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/150/) - next →: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/152/) - ↑ back to [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/)