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title: It was a "fohn," that violent storm-wind which rushes from the mount… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a "fohn," that violent storm-wind which rushes from the mountain to the valley beneath, and in its fury snaps asunder the trunks of large trees as if they were but slender reeds, and carries the wooden houses from one side of a river to the other as easily as we could move the pieces on a che
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 59

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It was a "fohn," that violent storm-wind which rushes from the mountain to the valley beneath, and in its fury snaps asunder the trunks of large trees as if they were but slender reeds, and carries the wooden houses from one side of a river to the other as easily as we could move the pieces on a chess-board.

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**Who acts:** roaring, that, violent storm wind, asunder, we · **What happens:** be, wind, rush, snap, carry, move · **To what, where:** fohn, mountain, asunder, wooden houses, one side, pieces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (roaring, that, violent storm wind, asunder), 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:pg27200:53:59
# text = It was a "fohn," that violent storm-wind which rushes from the mountain to the valley beneath, and in its fury snaps asunder the trunks of large trees as if they were but slender reeds, and carries the wooden houses from one side of a river to the other as easily as we could move the pieces on a chess-board.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	fohn	fohn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
9	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	obl	_	_
56	as	as	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
58	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
59	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obj	_	_
64	on	on	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
66	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | roaring | a fohn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wind** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rush** | present | violent storm wind |  |  | the mountain |  | to the valley *result*; beneath *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to valley=Result |
| 4 | **snap** | present |  | asunder and the trunks of large trees |  |  |  | in roaring's fury | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient in fury=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | asunder |  |  |  |  | as slender reeds | tree rules |
| 6 | **carry** | present |  | the wooden houses |  | one side of a river |  | to the other; easily *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme from side=Initial\_Location to other=Destination |
| 7 | **move** | could | we | the pieces |  | a chess board |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 8 | **infuriate** |  | roaring |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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