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title: "In the winter, when the fields were covered with snow, and the wate… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "In the winter, when the fields were covered with snow, and the water filled with large blocks of ice which I had blown up to the coast," continued the Wind, "great flocks of crows and ravens, dark and black as they usually are, came and alighted on the lonely, deserted ship. Who acts: water, fields
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 65

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"In the winter, when the fields were covered with snow, and the water filled with large blocks of ice which I had blown up to the coast," continued the Wind, "great flocks of crows and ravens, dark and black as they usually are, came and alighted on the lonely, deserted ship.

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**Who acts:** water, fields · **What happens:** cover, fill, blow up, continue, be, come · **To what, where:** fields, ice, coast, lonely deserted ship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (water, fields), 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:pg27200:212:65
# text = "In the winter, when the fields were covered with snow, and the water filled with large blocks of ice which I had blown up to the coast," continued the Wind, "great flocks of crows and ravens, dark and black as they usually are, came and alighted on the lonely, deserted ship.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
33	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	conj	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
58	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
60	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	amod	_	_
61	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the fields |  |  | winter | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** *in a quote* | participle | the water |  |  |  |  | with large blocks of ice | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with block=Instrument |
| 3 | **blow up** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | ice | the coast |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to coast=Recipient |
| 4 | **continue** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **does** *in a quote* | present | fields *= field* |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **alight** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | the lonely deserted ship |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **desert** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «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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