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title: The rolling and moaning of the North Sea could be heard for miles in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The rolling and moaning of the North Sea could be heard for miles inland when the wind was blowing, and then it sounded like the rushing of a thousand waggons over a hard road with a mine underneath. Who acts: wind, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Stor
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 47

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The rolling and moaning of the North Sea could be heard for miles inland when the wind was blowing, and then it sounded like the rushing of a thousand waggons over a hard road with a mine underneath.

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**Who acts:** wind, it · **What happens:** hear, blow, sound, rush · **To what, where:** rolling, hard road

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, 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:pg27200:161:47
# text = The rolling and moaning of the North Sea could be heard for miles inland when the wind was blowing, and then it sounded like the rushing of a thousand waggons over a hard road with a mine underneath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	moaning	moaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
25	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	waggons	waggon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
39	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | could · passive |  | the rolling and moaning of the North Sea |  |  |  | for miles | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blow** | past · progressive | the wind |  |  |  |  | inland *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sound** | past | it |  |  |  | then |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  | a hard road |  | of thousand waggons; with a mine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of waggon=Trajectory |

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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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