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title: "Those are not clouds," replied his fellow-traveller; "they are moun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Those are not clouds," replied his fellow-traveller; "they are mountains--large lofty mountains--on the tops of which we should be above the clouds, in the pure, free air. Who acts: clouds, tops. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, par
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 100

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"Those are not clouds," replied his fellow-traveller; "they are mountains--large lofty mountains--on the tops of which we should be above the clouds, in the pure, free air.

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**Who acts:** clouds, tops · **What happens:** not be, reply, be · **To what, where:** clouds, fellow traveller, mountains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, tops), 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:pg27200:196:100
# text = "Those are not clouds," replied his fellow-traveller; "they are mountains--large lofty mountains--on the tops of which we should be above the clouds, in the pure, free air.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
31	above	above	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that clouds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | that clouds | John's fellow traveller |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent traveller=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | clouds *= cloud* | mountains and large lofty mountains and the tops |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | should | the tops |  |  | the clouds and the pure free air |  |  | tree rules |

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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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