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title: Here sat the lovely wife of Summer, the same whom we have seen as a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here sat the lovely wife of Summer, the same whom we have seen as a child and a bride; her eyes were fixed on dark gathering clouds, which in wavy outlines of black and indigo were piling themselves up like mountains, higher and higher. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 94

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Here sat the lovely wife of Summer, the same whom we have seen as a child and a bride; her eyes were fixed on dark gathering clouds, which in wavy outlines of black and indigo were piling themselves up like mountains, higher and higher.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** sit, see, fix, pile up · **To what, where:** lovely wife, eyes, dark gathering clouds

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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 (we), 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:pg27200:214:94
# text = Here sat the lovely wife of Summer, the same whom we have seen as a child and a bride; her eyes were fixed on dark gathering clouds, which in wavy outlines of black and indigo were piling themselves up like mountains, higher and higher.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	wavy	wavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	outlines	outline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	indigo	indigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	piling	pile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	amod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the lovely wife of Summer |  | here |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | as a child and a bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus as child=Attribute |
| 3 | **fix** | past · passive |  | bride's eyes |  | dark gathering clouds and wavy outlines of black and indigo |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **pile up** | past · progressive |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | like mountains | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme themselves=Destination |

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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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