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title: On such another Easter morning as that on which Waldemar Daa imagine… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On such another Easter morning as that on which Waldemar Daa imagined he had discovered the art of making gold, I heard the tones of a psalm under the stork's nest, and within the crumbling walls. Who acts: Waldemar, kind, art, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 197

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On such another Easter morning as that on which Waldemar Daa imagined he had discovered the art of making gold, I heard the tones of a psalm under the stork's nest, and within the crumbling walls.

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**Who acts:** Waldemar, kind, art, I · **What happens:** imagine, discover, make, hear, crumble, intonate · **To what, where:** art, gold, tones, nest, psalm

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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 (Waldemar, kind, art, 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:pg27200:14800`): 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:pg27200:212:197
# text = On such another Easter morning as that on which Waldemar Daa imagined he had discovered the art of making gold, I heard the tones of a psalm under the stork's nest, and within the crumbling walls.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Daa	Daa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	within	within	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	crumbling	crumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	amod	_	_
39	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | past | Waldemar |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **discover** | past · perfect | kind | the art |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the art *not said here* | gold |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product |
| 4 | **hear** | past | I | the tones of a psalm |  | the stork's nest and the crumbling walls | morning |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus |
| 5 | **crumble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **intonate** |  |  | a psalm |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication 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:** 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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