--- title: The blue smoke from the guns rose like clouds over the dark trees, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The blue smoke from the guns rose like clouds over the dark trees, and as it floated away across the water, a number of sporting dogs bounded in among the rushes, which bent beneath them wherever they went. Who acts: blue smoke, smoke, rushes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/77/) [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/) / [The Ugly Duckling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/) / 77 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 77 The blue smoke from the guns rose like clouds over the dark trees, and as it floated away across the water, a number of sporting dogs bounded in among the rushes, which bent beneath them wherever they went. **Who acts:** blue smoke, smoke, rushes · **What happens:** rise, float away, sport, bound, bend, go · **To what, where:** dark trees, water, sporting dogs, rushes This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue smoke, smoke, rushes), 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:pg27200:201:77 # text = The blue smoke from the guns rose like clouds over the dark trees, and as it floated away across the water, a number of sporting dogs bounded in among the rushes, which bent beneath them wherever they went. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 across across ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 sporting sport VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 bounded bound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 among among ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 rushes rush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | the blue smoke from the guns | | | the dark trees | | like clouds | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over tree=Location | | 2 | **float away** | past | smoke | | | the water and a number of sporting dogs | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across water=Trajectory | | 3 | **sport** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bound** | participle | | sporting dogs *not said here* | | the rushes | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rush=Trajectory | | 5 | **bend** | past | the rushes | | | | | beneath rushes *= rush* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath they=Location | | 6 | **go** | past | rushes *= rush* | | | | | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/78/) - ↑ back to [The Ugly Duckling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/)