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title: "Soon the sun will kiss the clouds red," answered the Wind; "then th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Soon the sun will kiss the clouds red," answered the Wind; "then thou wilt be among the dead--blown away, as all the splendor here will be blown away before the year shall have ended. Who acts: sun, Wind, thou. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, par
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 151

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"Soon the sun will kiss the clouds red," answered the Wind; "then thou wilt be among the dead--blown away, as all the splendor here will be blown away before the year shall have ended.

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**Who acts:** sun, Wind, thou · **What happens:** kiss, answer, be, blow away, end · **To what, where:** clouds, splendor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Wind, thou), 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:pg27200:26:151
# text = "Soon the sun will kiss the clouds red," answered the Wind; "then thou wilt be among the dead--blown away, as all the splendor here will be blown away before the year shall have ended.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
19	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	advcl	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
42	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** *in a quote* | future | the sun | the clouds |  |  |  | red, soon *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Wind |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | thou |  |  |  | then | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow away** *in a quote* | participle | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **blow away** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | all splendor |  |  | year | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **end** *in a quote* | shall · perfect | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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