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title: If a black heavy cloud arose, it was as if the sea said, "I can look… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If a black heavy cloud arose, it was as if the sea said, "I can look dark and angry too;" and then the wind blew, and the waves turned to white foam as they rolled. Who acts: black heavy cloud, it, I, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, par
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 82

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If a black heavy cloud arose, it was as if the sea said, "I can look dark and angry too;" and then the wind blew, and the waves turned to white foam as they rolled.

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**Who acts:** black heavy cloud, it, I, wind, waves · **What happens:** arise, be, look, blow, turn, roll · **To what, where:** white foam · **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 (black heavy cloud, it, I, wind), 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:pg27200:208:82
# text = If a black heavy cloud arose, it was as if the sea said, "I can look dark and angry too;" and then the wind blew, and the waves turned to white foam as they rolled.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a black heavy cloud |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | it |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | can | I |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **blow** | past | the wind |  |  |  | then |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **turn** | past | the waves |  |  | white foam |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to foam=Trajectory |
| 6 | **roll** | past | waves *= wave* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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