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title: I had hurried across the heath and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I had hurried across the heath and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern coast, and over the island of Funen, and then I drove across the great belt, sighing and moaning. Who acts: I, wood. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 22

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I had hurried across the heath and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern coast, and over the island of Funen, and then I drove across the great belt, sighing and moaning.

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**Who acts:** I, wood · **What happens:** hurry, girt, drive, sigh, moan · **To what, where:** heath, eastern coast, great belt

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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, wood), 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:pg27200:212:22
# text = I had hurried across the heath and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern coast, and over the island of Funen, and then I drove across the great belt, sighing and moaning.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	girt	girt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Funen	Funen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	across	across	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	advcl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | past · perfect | I |  |  | the heath |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across heath=Trajectory |
| 2 | **girt** | infinitive | Jutland's wood | eastern coast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | past | I |  |  | the great belt | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across belt=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sigh** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **moan** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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