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title: The wolves howled, and the ravens screamed; while up in the sky quiv… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wolves howled, and the ravens screamed; while up in the sky quivered red lights like flames of fire. " Who acts: wolves, ravens, fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 76

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The wolves howled, and the ravens screamed; while up in the sky quivered red lights like flames of fire. "

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**Who acts:** wolves, ravens, fire · **What happens:** howl, scream, quiver, flame · **To what, where:** red lights, sky

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, ravens, fire), 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:pg27200:174:76
# text = The wolves howled, and the ravens screamed; while up in the sky quivered red lights like flames of fire. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	quivered	quiver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | past | the wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the ravens |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **quiver** | past | the wolves *not said here* | red lights |  | the sky |  | like flames of fire | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme |
| 4 | **flame** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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