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title: That very morning the letter had arrived from the cold regions of th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That very morning the letter had arrived from the cold regions of the north; there, where the absent one was sweetly sleeping under the protecting hand of God. Who acts: letter, absent one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 24

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That very morning the letter had arrived from the cold regions of the north; there, where the absent one was sweetly sleeping under the protecting hand of God.

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**Who acts:** letter, absent one · **What happens:** arrive, sleep, protect · **To what, where:** cold regions, protecting hand

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter, absent one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14055`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:205:24
# text = That very morning the letter had arrived from the cold regions of the north; there, where the absent one was sweetly sleeping under the protecting hand of God.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl:relcl	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	amod	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect | the letter |  |  | the cold regions of the north; there | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from region=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the absent one |  |  | the protecting hand of God |  | sweetly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **protect** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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