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title: A rustling went through the leaves of the tree; there was a tremblin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A rustling went through the leaves of the tree; there was a trembling in each of the leaves; it seemed as if fire streamed through it. Who acts: rustling, trembling, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 80

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A rustling went through the leaves of the tree; there was a trembling in each of the leaves; it seemed as if fire streamed through it.

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**Who acts:** rustling, trembling, it · **What happens:** go, be, seem, stream · **To what, where:** leaves, fire, tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rustling, trembling, it), 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:pg27200:25:80
# text = A rustling went through the leaves of the tree; there was a trembling in each of the leaves; it seemed as if fire streamed through it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | a rustling |  |  | the leaves of the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through leaf=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | a trembling in each |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | as fire | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stream** | participle |  | fire *not said here* |  | tree |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=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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