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title: A gust of wind rushed between the hills, hurling the particles of sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A gust of wind rushed between the hills, hurling the particles of sand high into the air; another gust, and the strings of fish hung up to dry flapped and beat violently against the walls of the cottage; then everything was quiet once more, and the sun shone with renewed heat. Who acts: everything. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 81

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A gust of wind rushed between the hills, hurling the particles of sand high into the air; another gust, and the strings of fish hung up to dry flapped and beat violently against the walls of the cottage; then everything was quiet once more, and the sun shone with renewed heat.

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**Who acts:** everything · **What happens:** rush, hurl, hang up, dry, flap, beat · **To what, where:** gust, hills, particles, air, strings, walls

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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 (everything), 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:pg27200:158:81
# text = A gust of wind rushed between the hills, hurling the particles of sand high into the air; another gust, and the strings of fish hung up to dry flapped and beat violently against the walls of the cottage; then everything was quiet once more, and the sun shone with renewed heat.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gust	gust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hurling	hurl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	gust	gust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	flapped	flap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	against	against	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
44	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
47	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	48	advmod	_	_
48	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
53	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	renewed	renew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | participle |  | a gust of wind and another gust *not said here* |  | the hills |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between hill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hurl** | gerund |  | the particles of sand |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent particle=Theme into air=Destination |
| 3 | **hang up** | participle |  | the strings of fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **flap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **beat** | infinitive |  |  |  | the walls of the cottage |  | violently *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location |
| 7 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  | then | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **shine** | participle |  | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  | with renewed heat | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme |
| 9 | **renew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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