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title: Late in the autumn, when the weather was rough, windy, and wet, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Late in the autumn, when the weather was rough, windy, and wet, and the cold penetrated through the thickest clothing, especially at sea, a wretched boat went out to sea with only two men on board, or, more correctly, a man and a half, for it was the skipper and his boy. Who acts: weather, cold, boa
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 23

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Late in the autumn, when the weather was rough, windy, and wet, and the cold penetrated through the thickest clothing, especially at sea, a wretched boat went out to sea with only two men on board, or, more correctly, a man and a half, for it was the skipper and his boy.

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**Who acts:** weather, cold, boat · **What happens:** be, penetrate, go out · **To what, where:** cold, thickest clothing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, cold, boat), 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:pg27200:5:23
# text = Late in the autumn, when the weather was rough, windy, and wet, and the cold penetrated through the thickest clothing, especially at sea, a wretched boat went out to sea with only two men on board, or, more correctly, a man and a half, for it was the skipper and his boy.
1	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
20	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
47	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	skipper	skipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the weather |  |  |  | autumn | rough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **penetrate** | participle |  | the cold *not said here* |  | the thickest clothing and sea |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go out** | past | the cold |  |  |  |  | to sea; with two men on board; correctly, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | boat |  |  |  |  | for the skipper and boy's boy | 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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