--- title: They laughed and wept over the letter; and he, far away, amid ice an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They laughed and wept over the letter; and he, far away, amid ice and snow, under the shadow of the angel's wings, wept and smiled with them in spirit; for he saw and heard it all in his dream. Who acts: regions, letter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (regions, letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14056`): 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:pg27200:205:25 # text = They laughed and wept over the letter; and he, far away, amid ice and snow, under the shadow of the angel's wings, wept and smiled with them in spirit; for he saw and heard it all in his dream. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 amid amid ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 under under ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | regions *= region* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **weep** | past | regions *= region* *not said here* | | | the letter | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **weep** | past | letter | | | the shadow of the angel's wings | | amid ice and snow; away *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **smile** | past | letter *not said here* | | | | | with regions *= region*; in spirit | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spirit=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | letter | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **hear** | past | letter *not said here* | spirit | | letter's dream | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 7 | **shadow** | | | the angel's wings | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **dream** | | letter | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/205/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/205/26/) - ↑ back to [In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/205/)