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title: I blew the smoke and ashes into his face and beard; I moaned through… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I blew the smoke and ashes into his face and beard; I moaned through the broken window-panes, and the yawning clefts in the walls; I blew into the chests and drawers belonging to his daughters, wherein lay the clothes that had become faded and threadbare, from being worn over and over again. Who act
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 106

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I blew the smoke and ashes into his face and beard; I moaned through the broken window-panes, and the yawning clefts in the walls; I blew into the chests and drawers belonging to his daughters, wherein lay the clothes that had become faded and threadbare, from being worn over and over again.

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**Who acts:** I, chests, clothes · **What happens:** blow, moan, belong, lay, become, fade · **To what, where:** smoke, face, broken window panes, chests, clothes

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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 (I, chests, clothes), 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:pg27200:212:106
# text = I blew the smoke and ashes into his face and beard; I moaned through the broken window-panes, and the yawning clefts in the walls; I blew into the chests and drawers belonging to his daughters, wherein lay the clothes that had become faded and threadbare, from being worn over and over again.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	moaned	moan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	yawning	yawning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	clefts	cleft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	chests	chest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
43	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	43	obj	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	xcomp	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	threadbare	threadbare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	_
56	over	over	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	over	over	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	again	again	ADV	RB	_	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | I | the smoke and ashes |  | skin's face and beard |  | the yawning clefts in the walls *obl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent smoke=Material into face=Product |
| 2 | **moan** | past | I |  |  | the broken window panes |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pane=Location |
| 3 | **blow** | past | I |  |  | the chests and drawers |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into chest=Product |
| 4 | **belong** | gerund | the chests and drawers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to skin's daughters | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the clothes |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Result |
| 6 | **become** | past · perfect | the clothes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fade** | participle | the clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **wear** | gerund · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |

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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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