--- title: Later on the air became clearer, but the storm swept over the pertur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Later on the air became clearer, but the storm swept over the perturbed sea with undiminished fury; the fisher folks had long since gone to bed, but in such weather there was no chance of closing an eye. Who acts: air, storm, fisher folks, chance. 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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 (air, storm, fisher folks, chance), 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:pg27200:158:90 # text = Later on the air became clearer, but the storm swept over the perturbed sea with undiminished fury; the fisher folks had long since gone to bed, but in such weather there was no chance of closing an eye. 1 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 clearer clear ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 swept sweep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 perturbed perturb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 undiminished undiminished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 fury fury NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 fisher fisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 25 since since ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 xcomp _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 34 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 35 expl _ _ 35 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 38 of of SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 closing close VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | the air | | | | | clear, late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **sweep** | past | the storm | | | the perturbed sea | | with undiminished fury | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory | | 3 | **perturb** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **have** | past | the fisher folks | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | participle | the fisher folks *not said here* | | | bed | | since *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **be** | past | no chance | | | such weather; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location | | 7 | **close** | gerund | no chance *not said here* | a eye | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/91/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/)