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title: Warm air waved the corn as it grew golden in the sun. The white nort… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Warm air waved the corn as it grew golden in the sun. The white northern lily spread its large green leaves over the glossy mirror of the woodland lake, and the fishes sought the shadows beneath them. Who acts: Warm air, air, white northern lily, fishes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 92

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Warm air waved the corn as it grew golden in the sun. The white northern lily spread its large green leaves over the glossy mirror of the woodland lake, and the fishes sought the shadows beneath them.

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**Who acts:** Warm air, air, white northern lily, fishes · **What happens:** wave, grow, spread, seek · **To what, where:** corn, large green leaves, sun., shadows

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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 (Warm air, air, white northern lily, fishes), 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:pg27200:214:92
# text = Warm air waved the corn as it grew golden in the sun. The white northern lily spread its large green leaves over the glossy mirror of the woodland lake, and the fishes sought the shadows beneath them.
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	woodland	woodland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | past | Warm air | the corn |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | air |  |  |  |  | golden *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | past | the white northern lily | lily's large green leaves |  | the sun. |  | over the glossy mirror of the woodland lake | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme in sun.=Destination |
| 4 | **seek** | past | the fishes | the shadows |  |  |  | beneath shadows *= shadow* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme beneath they=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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