--- title: When the morning dawned, and the gentle breeze rippled the glassy mi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: When the morning dawned, and the gentle breeze rippled the glassy mirror of the forest lake, all the delicate veils and flags fluttered away into thin air; the waving garlands of the spider's web, the hanging bridges and galleries, or whatever else they may be called, vanished away as if they had ne --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [What the First Little Mouse Saw and He…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/) / 46 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 46 When the morning dawned, and the gentle breeze rippled the glassy mirror of the forest lake, all the delicate veils and flags fluttered away into thin air; the waving garlands of the spider's web, the hanging bridges and galleries, or whatever else they may be called, vanished away as if they had never been. **Who acts:** gentle breeze, delicate veils, veils · **What happens:** dawn, ripple, flutter away, wave, call, vanish away · **To what, where:** glassy mirror, thin air, veils · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentle breeze, delicate veils, veils), 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:pg27200:179:46 # text = When the morning dawned, and the gentle breeze rippled the glassy mirror of the forest lake, all the delicate veils and flags fluttered away into thin air; the waving garlands of the spider's web, the hanging bridges and galleries, or whatever else they may be called, vanished away as if they had never been. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 dawned dawn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rippled ripple VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 glassy glassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 veils veil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 flags flag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 fluttered flutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 garlands garland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 hanging hanging NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 galleries gallery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 47 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 52 obj _ _ 48 else else ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 55 away away ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 56 as as SCONJ IN _ 61 mark _ _ 57 if if SCONJ IN _ 61 mark _ _ 58 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 59 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 60 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 61 advmod _ _ 61 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 54 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dawn** | participle | | | | | morning | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ripple** | past | the gentle breeze | the glassy mirror of the forest lake | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location mirror=Theme | | 3 | **flutter away** | past | all delicate veils and flags | | | thin air | | away *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wave** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **call** | may · passive | | veils *= veil* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme whatever=Result | | 6 | **vanish away** | past | | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **be** | past · perfect | veils *= veil* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/47/) - ↑ back to [What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/)