--- title: Then, as now, the houses were strewn among the wind-raised sand-hill… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then, as now, the houses were strewn among the wind-raised sand-hills--a wilderness in which the wind sports with the sand, and where the voice of the sea-gull and wild swan strikes harshly on the ear. Who acts: voice. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (voice), 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:pg27200:161:80 # text = Then, as now, the houses were strewn among the wind-raised sand-hills--a wilderness in which the wind sports with the sand, and where the voice of the sea-gull and wild swan strikes harshly on the ear. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 strewn strewn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 among among ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 12 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 15 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 25 det _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 strikes strike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 43 harshly harshly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strewn** | past · passive | | the houses | | | then | among the raised sand hills; a wilderness which wind sports with the sand *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **strike** | present | the voice of the sea gull and wild swan | | | the ear | | harshly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ear=Location | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/81/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/)