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title: How the cry resounded over field and meadow, and through the dark-br… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How the cry resounded over field and meadow, and through the dark-brown woods, where the fresh green moss still gleamed on the trunks of the trees, and from the south came the two first storks flying through the air, and on the back of each sat a lovely little child, a boy and a girl. Who acts: cry,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 64

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How the cry resounded over field and meadow, and through the dark-brown woods, where the fresh green moss still gleamed on the trunks of the trees, and from the south came the two first storks flying through the air, and on the back of each sat a lovely little child, a boy and a girl.

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**Who acts:** cry, two first storks · **What happens:** resound, gleam, come, fly, sit · **To what, where:** field, fresh green moss, trunks, two first storks, south, air

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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 (cry, two first storks), 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:pg27200:214:64
# text = How the cry resounded over field and meadow, and through the dark-brown woods, where the fresh green moss still gleamed on the trunks of the trees, and from the south came the two first storks flying through the air, and on the back of each sat a lovely little child, a boy and a girl.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	resounded	resound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
39	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	40	amod	_	_
40	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
41	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	acl	_	_
42	through	through	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	nmod	_	_
52	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
54	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	appos	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resound** | past | the cry |  |  | field and meadow |  | through the brown woods | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location |
| 2 | **gleam** | participle · passive |  | the fresh green moss |  | the trunks of the trees | still |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past |  | the two first storks |  | the south |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stork=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | the two first storks *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 5 | **sit** | past |  | a lovely little child |  | the back of each |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent child=Theme on back=Location |

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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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