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title: The forest leaves became more and more yellow, leaf after leaf fell,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The forest leaves became more and more yellow, leaf after leaf fell, and the stormy winds of Autumn howled. Who acts: forest leaves, leaf, stormy winds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 127

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The forest leaves became more and more yellow, leaf after leaf fell, and the stormy winds of Autumn howled.

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**Who acts:** forest leaves, leaf, stormy winds · **What happens:** become, fall, howl, wind · **To what, where:** Autumn

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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 (forest leaves, leaf, stormy winds), 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:pg27200:214:127
# text = The forest leaves became more and more yellow, leaf after leaf fell, and the stormy winds of Autumn howled.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the forest leaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | leaf |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **howl** | past | the stormy winds of Autumn |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wind** |  |  | Autumn |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon 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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