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title: A sudden, cloudless sky was for her a blank leaf; and for several da… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A sudden, cloudless sky was for her a blank leaf; and for several days she had only had such leaves before her. Who acts: sudden cloudless sky, Dryad. 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 cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 63

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A sudden, cloudless sky was for her a blank leaf; and for several days she had only had such leaves before her.

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**Who acts:** sudden cloudless sky, Dryad · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** blank leaf, such leaves

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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 (sudden cloudless sky, Dryad), 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:pg27200:24:63
# text = A sudden, cloudless sky was for her a blank leaf; and for several days she had only had such leaves before her.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	cloudless	cloudless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a sudden cloudless sky | a blank leaf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past · perfect | Dryad | such leaves |  |  | before direction; day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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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