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title: The waves rose high, crested with white foam, and the wind cut off t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The waves rose high, crested with white foam, and the wind cut off their crests, scattering the foam far and wide. Who acts: waves, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 86

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The waves rose high, crested with white foam, and the wind cut off their crests, scattering the foam far and wide.

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**Who acts:** waves, wind · **What happens:** rise, crest, cut off, scatter · **To what, where:** wind, crests, foam

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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 (waves, wind), 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:pg27200:158:86
# text = The waves rose high, crested with white foam, and the wind cut off their crests, scattering the foam far and wide.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	crested	crest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	crests	crest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the waves | the wind |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crest** | participle | the waves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with white foam | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cut off** | participle | the wind *not said here* | waves's crests |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector crest=Eventuality |
| 4 | **scatter** | gerund | the waves *not said here* | the foam |  |  |  | far *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foam=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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