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title: Around the Wetterhorn hung a feathery cloud, like a woolbag, and a t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Around the Wetterhorn hung a feathery cloud, like a woolbag, and a threatening cloud too, for as it sunk lower it increased in size, and concealed within was a "fohn," fearful in its violence should it break loose. Who acts: feathery cloud, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 49

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Around the Wetterhorn hung a feathery cloud, like a woolbag, and a threatening cloud too, for as it sunk lower it increased in size, and concealed within was a "fohn," fearful in its violence should it break loose.

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**Who acts:** feathery cloud, wind · **What happens:** hang, sink, increase, conceal, break · **To what, where:** Wetterhorn, size, fohn

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feathery cloud, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:4041`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:53:49
# text = Around the Wetterhorn hung a feathery cloud, like a woolbag, and a threatening cloud too, for as it sunk lower it increased in size, and concealed within was a "fohn," fearful in its violence should it break loose.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Wetterhorn	Wetterhorn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woolbag	woolbag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	threatening	threatening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sunk	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
23	lower	low	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
31	within	within	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	fohn	fohn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
38	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
45	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | a feathery cloud like a woolbag and a threatening cloud |  |  | the Wetterhorn |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around wetterhorn=Location |
| 2 | **sink** | past | wind |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **increase** | past | wind |  |  | size |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **conceal** | past · passive |  | a fohn |  |  |  | within *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **break** | should | wind |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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