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title: Amid smoke and ashes, sorrow, and sleepless nights, the hair and bea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Amid smoke and ashes, sorrow, and sleepless nights, the hair and beard of the master of the house turned gray, and deep furrows showed themselves around his temples; his skin turned pale and yellow, while his eyes still looked eagerly for gold, the longed-for gold, and the result of his labor was de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 105

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Amid smoke and ashes, sorrow, and sleepless nights, the hair and beard of the master of the house turned gray, and deep furrows showed themselves around his temples; his skin turned pale and yellow, while his eyes still looked eagerly for gold, the longed-for gold, and the result of his labor was debt instead of gain.

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**Who acts:** Amid smoke, deep furrows, skin, eyes, result · **What happens:** turn, show, look, long, be, result · **To what, where:** furrows, temples, debt, labor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amid smoke, deep furrows, skin, eyes), 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:pg27200:212:105
# text = Amid smoke and ashes, sorrow, and sleepless nights, the hair and beard of the master of the house turned gray, and deep furrows showed themselves around his temples; his skin turned pale and yellow, while his eyes still looked eagerly for gold, the longed-for gold, and the result of his labor was debt instead of gain.
1	Amid	amid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	sleepless	sleepless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	around	around	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
37	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
44	still	still	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
46	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
51	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
63	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
64	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	66	case	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	fixed	_	_
66	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Amid smoke and ashes and sorrow and sleepless nights |  |  |  |  | gray *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | past | deep furrows | furrows *= furrow* |  | Poverty's temples |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
| 3 | **turn** | past | Poverty's skin |  |  |  |  | instead gain; pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | skin's eyes |  |  |  | still | for gold and the longed gold; eagerly *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme |
| 5 | **long** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the result of skin's labor | debt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **result** |  |  | skin's labor |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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