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title: It was hard for any one to preserve composure on such a day; but the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was hard for any one to preserve composure on such a day; but these people had strong wills, as unbending as their hard fortune. Who acts: one, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 148

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It was hard for any one to preserve composure on such a day; but these people had strong wills, as unbending as their hard fortune.

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**Who acts:** one, people · **What happens:** be, preserve, have, unbend · **To what, where:** composure, strong wills

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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 (one, people), 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:pg27200:212:148
# text = It was hard for any one to preserve composure on such a day; but these people had strong wills, as unbending as their hard fortune.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	composure	composure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wills	will	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	unbending	unbend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | to-infinitive | any one | composure |  |  | day |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent composure=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **have** | past | this people | strong wills |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Patient |
| 4 | **unbend** | gerund | this people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as people's hard fortune | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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