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title: It came quite suddenly, like wind rushing through the chimneys, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It came quite suddenly, like wind rushing through the chimneys, and seemed as if every pot and kettle were boiling over. Who acts: staff, wind, pot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 62

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It came quite suddenly, like wind rushing through the chimneys, and seemed as if every pot and kettle were boiling over.

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**Who acts:** staff, wind, pot · **What happens:** come, rush, seem, boil over · **To what, where:** chimneys

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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 (staff, wind, pot), 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:pg27200:179:62
# text = It came quite suddenly, like wind rushing through the chimneys, and seemed as if every pot and kettle were boiling over.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
23	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | staff |  |  |  |  | like wind; suddenly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | gerund | wind *not said here* |  |  | the chimneys |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chimney=Trajectory |
| 3 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **boil over** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | every pot and kettle |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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