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title: I rattled the broken windows, beat against the old rotten doors, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I rattled the broken windows, beat against the old rotten doors, and whistled through cracks and crevices, so that Mr. Owe Ramel did not much like to remain there. Who acts: I, broken windows, Owe. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 142

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I rattled the broken windows, beat against the old rotten doors, and whistled through cracks and crevices, so that Mr. Owe Ramel did not much like to remain there.

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**Who acts:** I, broken windows, Owe · **What happens:** rattle, break, beat, whistle, like, remain · **To what, where:** broken windows, old rotten doors, cracks

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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, broken windows, Owe), 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:pg27200:212:142
# text = I rattled the broken windows, beat against the old rotten doors, and whistled through cracks and crevices, so that Mr. Owe Ramel did not much like to remain there.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	crevices	crevice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Owe	Owe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	Ramel	Ramel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rattle** | past | I | the broken windows |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent window=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **beat** | present | the broken windows *not said here* |  |  | the old rotten doors |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against door=Location |
| 4 | **whistle** | participle |  |  |  | cracks and crevices |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crack=Location |
| 5 | **like** | past · do-support | Owe  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Owe  Mr. *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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