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title: One day passed just like another; sometimes the winds rustled throug… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One day passed just like another; sometimes the winds rustled through the leaves of the rose-bush, and would whisper to the roses, "Who can be more beautiful than you!" Who acts: One day, winds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 17

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One day passed just like another; sometimes the winds rustled through the leaves of the rose-bush, and would whisper to the roses, "Who can be more beautiful than you!"

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**Who acts:** One day, winds · **What happens:** pass, rustle, whisper, be · **To what, where:** leaves, roses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (One day, winds), 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:pg27200:208:17
# text = One day passed just like another; sometimes the winds rustled through the leaves of the rose-bush, and would whisper to the roses, "Who can be more beautiful than you!"
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | One day |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rustle** | past | the winds |  |  | the leaves of the rose bush |  | sometimes *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through leaf=Location |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: express* | would |  |  | the roses |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rose=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | can |  |  |  |  |  | than the roses *= rose*; beautiful *property* | 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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