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title: A gust of wind shook its green crown, and from the midst of that cro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A gust of wind shook its green crown, and from the midst of that crown a female figure came forth. Who acts: gust, female figure. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 81

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A gust of wind shook its green crown, and from the midst of that crown a female figure came forth.

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**Who acts:** gust, female figure · **What happens:** shake, crown, come · **To what, where:** green crown, midst

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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 (gust, female figure), 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:pg27200:25:81
# text = A gust of wind shook its green crown, and from the midst of that crown a female figure came forth.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gust	gust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	_
16	crown	crown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | a gust of wind | gust's green crown |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crown=Patient |
| 2 | **crown** | present | a gust of wind *not said here* |  |  | the midst of that |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | a female figure |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **crown** |  | gust |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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