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title: Then they croaked in harsh accents of the forest that now existed no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they croaked in harsh accents of the forest that now existed no more, of the many pretty birds' nests destroyed and the little ones left without a home; and all for the sake of that great bit of lumber, that proud ship, that never sailed forth. Who acts: fields, forest. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 66

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Then they croaked in harsh accents of the forest that now existed no more, of the many pretty birds' nests destroyed and the little ones left without a home; and all for the sake of that great bit of lumber, that proud ship, that never sailed forth.

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**Who acts:** fields, forest · **What happens:** croak, exist, destroy, leave, not sail, accent · **To what, where:** harsh accents, more, little ones, proud ship, forest

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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 (fields, forest), 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:pg27200:212:66
# text = Then they croaked in harsh accents of the forest that now existed no more, of the many pretty birds' nests destroyed and the little ones left without a home; and all for the sake of that great bit of lumber, that proud ship, that never sailed forth.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	croaked	croak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
23	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	lumber	lumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
46	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obj	_	_
50	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
52	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | past | fields *= field* |  |  | harsh accents of the forest | then | for all sake of that great bit of lumber | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for sake=Recipient |
| 2 | **exist** | past | the forest | more |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | past | fields *= field* *not said here* | the little ones |  |  |  | of the many pretty birds's nests | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  | the little ones *not said here* |  |  |  | without a home | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **sail** | past |  | that proud ship |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory |
| 6 | **accent** |  |  | the forest |  |  |  |  | nom accent «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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