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title: It was wet and rough above and below, and might still be worse. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was wet and rough above and below, and might still be worse. Who acts: wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 31

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It was wet and rough above and below, and might still be worse.

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**Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** be

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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 (wind), 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:pg27200:5:31
# text = It was wet and rough above and below, and might still be worse.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	above	above	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	below	below	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wind |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | might | wind *not said here* |  |  |  | still | bad *property* | 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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