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title: The rain streamed down; a refreshing wind was blowing; the storm had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The rain streamed down; a refreshing wind was blowing; the storm had gone by, and there was quite a holiday glow on all things. Who acts: refreshing wind, rain. 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 76

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The rain streamed down; a refreshing wind was blowing; the storm had gone by, and there was quite a holiday glow on all things.

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**Who acts:** refreshing wind, rain · **What happens:** stream down, refresh, blow, go by, be · **To what, where:** rain, holiday glow, things

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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 (refreshing wind, rain), 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:pg27200:24:76
# text = The rain streamed down; a refreshing wind was blowing; the storm had gone by, and there was quite a holiday glow on all things.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stream down** | participle |  | the rain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **refresh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **blow** | past · progressive | a refreshing wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go by** | past · perfect | the rain |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | quite holiday glow |  | all things |  |  | tree rules |

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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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