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title: I blew coldly upon his flustered cheeks, I stroked his gray beard an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I blew coldly upon his flustered cheeks, I stroked his gray beard and his long white hair, and I sang as well as I was able, 'Whir-r-r, whir-r-r. Who acts: I. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 152

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I blew coldly upon his flustered cheeks, I stroked his gray beard and his long white hair, and I sang as well as I was able, 'Whir-r-r, whir-r-r.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** blow, stroke, sing, be · **To what, where:** gray beard, Whir r r

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14762`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:212:152
# text = I blew coldly upon his flustered cheeks, I stroked his gray beard and his long white hair, and I sang as well as I was able, 'Whir-r-r, whir-r-r.
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	coldly	coldly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	flustered	flustered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stroked	stroke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
31	Whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	whir	whir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
42	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | upon glass's flustered cheeks; coldly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stroke** | past | I | glass's gray beard and glass's long white hair |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | I | Whir r r and whir r r |  |  |  | well *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location r=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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