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title: The moon had risen, and it was light enough to make the surrounding… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon had risen, and it was light enough to make the surrounding objects visible to those who could open their eyes in the blinding clouds of sand; the violence of the wind was terrible, and it was only possible to pass among the sand-hills if one crept forward between the gusts; the salt spray f
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 94

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The moon had risen, and it was light enough to make the surrounding objects visible to those who could open their eyes in the blinding clouds of sand; the violence of the wind was terrible, and it was only possible to pass among the sand-hills if one crept forward between the gusts; the salt spray flew up from the sea like down, and the ocean foamed like a roaring cataract towards the beach.

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**Who acts:** moon, surrounding, violence, it, one, salt spray · **What happens:** rise, be, make, object, open, pass · **To what, where:** moon, eyes, blinding clouds, sand hills, gusts, sea

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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 (moon, surrounding, violence, it), 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:pg27200:158:94
# text = The moon had risen, and it was light enough to make the surrounding objects visible to those who could open their eyes in the blinding clouds of sand; the violence of the wind was terrible, and it was only possible to pass among the sand-hills if one crept forward between the gusts; the salt spray flew up from the sea like down, and the ocean foamed like a roaring cataract towards the beach.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	objects	object	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	blinding	blinding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	only	only	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	csubj	_	_
46	among	among	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
51	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
54	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	between	between	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	gusts	gust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	62	punct	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
63	up	up	ADP	RP	_	62	compound:prt	_	_
64	from	from	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
67	like	like	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	down	down	ADV	RB	_	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nsubj	_	_
73	foamed	foam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	conj	_	_
74	like	like	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
75	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
76	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	77	amod	_	_
77	cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	_
78	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
79	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	80	det	_	_
80	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past · perfect · passive |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | moon |  |  |  |  | enough, light *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **object** *speech: other* | present | the surrounding |  |  |  |  | visible *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **open** | could |  | people's eyes |  | the blinding clouds of sand |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in cloud=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | the violence of the wind |  |  |  |  | terrible *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the sand hills |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among hill=Location |
| 9 | **creep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one |  |  | the gusts |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between gust=Trajectory |
| 10 | **fly up** | past | the salt spray |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sea=Trajectory |
| 11 | **foam** | participle | the ocean |  |  | the beach |  | like a roaring cataract | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards beach=Location |
| 12 | **roar** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 13 | **cloud** |  |  | sand |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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