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title: In the clouds that went sailing by she saw, picture by picture, ever… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the clouds that went sailing by she saw, picture by picture, everything that she heard talked about. Who acts: clouds, Dryad, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 35

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In the clouds that went sailing by she saw, picture by picture, everything that she heard talked about.

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**Who acts:** clouds, Dryad, you · **What happens:** go, sail, see, picture, talk about · **To what, where:** clouds, Dryad

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, Dryad, you), 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:pg27200:24:35
# text = In the clouds that went sailing by she saw, picture by picture, everything that she heard talked about.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the clouds |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sail** | gerund | the clouds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | Dryad |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the clouds |  | by picture | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **talk about** | past · passive |  | Dryad |  |  |  | about *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=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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