--- title: The young brown reeds on the moor waved to and fro in feathery billo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The young brown reeds on the moor waved to and fro in feathery billows; the forest boughs were hidden in a watery mist, and still light and darkness followed each other, still came the silence after the roar, while the corn and the blades of grass lay beaten down and swamped, so that it seemed impos --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/101/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Story of the Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/) / 101 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 101 The young brown reeds on the moor waved to and fro in feathery billows; the forest boughs were hidden in a watery mist, and still light and darkness followed each other, still came the silence after the roar, while the corn and the blades of grass lay beaten down and swamped, so that it seemed impossible they could ever raise themselves again. **Who acts:** young brown reeds, darkness, corn, it, boughs · **What happens:** wave, fro, hide, follow, come, lay · **To what, where:** feathery billows, forest boughs, watery mist, each, silence, boughs This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young brown reeds, darkness, corn, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:214:101 # text = The young brown reeds on the moor waved to and fro in feathery billows; the forest boughs were hidden in a watery mist, and still light and darkness followed each other, still came the silence after the roar, while the corn and the blades of grass lay beaten down and swamped, so that it seemed impossible they could ever raise themselves again. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 reeds reed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 moor moor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 8 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 feathery feathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 billows billow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 watery watery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 mist mist NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 31 obj _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 after after ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 43 while while SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 52 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 xcomp _ _ 53 down down ADP RP _ 52 compound:prt _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 swamped swamp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 so so ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 58 that that SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 59 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 60 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 61 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 xcomp _ _ 62 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 63 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 64 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 65 advmod _ _ 65 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 ccomp _ _ 66 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 65 obj _ _ 67 again again ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wave** | past | the young brown reeds on the moor | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fro** | infinitive | the young brown reeds on the moor *not said here* | | | feathery billows | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | past · passive | | the forest boughs | | a watery mist | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in mist=Location | | 4 | **follow** | past | darkness | each | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | | the silence | | | after the roar; still | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location silence=Theme | | 6 | **lay** | present | the corn and the blades of grass | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **beat down** | participle | the corn and the blades of grass *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **swamp** | past | the corn and the blades of grass *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **seem** | past | it | | | | | impossible *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 10 | **raise** | could | boughs *= bough* | boughs *= bough* | | | ever; again | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/102/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/)