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title: There was a favourable wind blowing as they left the Spanish coast,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a favourable wind blowing as they left the Spanish coast, and it would be but a short journey, for they hoped to reach their destination in a few weeks; but when they came out upon the wide ocean the wind dropped, the sea became smooth and shining, and the stars shone brightly. Who acts: f
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 49

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There was a favourable wind blowing as they left the Spanish coast, and it would be but a short journey, for they hoped to reach their destination in a few weeks; but when they came out upon the wide ocean the wind dropped, the sea became smooth and shining, and the stars shone brightly.

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**Who acts:** favourable wind, words, wind, sea, stars · **What happens:** be, blow, leave, hope, reach, come out · **To what, where:** Spanish coast, short journey, destination

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (favourable wind, words, wind, sea), 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:pg27200:158:49
# text = There was a favourable wind blowing as they left the Spanish coast, and it would be but a short journey, for they hoped to reach their destination in a few weeks; but when they came out upon the wide ocean the wind dropped, the sea became smooth and shining, and the stars shone brightly.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
39	out	out	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
51	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
58	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
59	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a favourable wind |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | gerund | a favourable wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past | words *= word* | the Spanish coast |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | would | wind | a short journey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hope** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | words *= word* *not said here* | words's destination |  |  | week |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent destination=Theme |
| 7 | **come out** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | upon the wide ocean; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **drop** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **become** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  | smooth *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **shine** | gerund | the sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **shine** | past | the stars |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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