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title: The avalanche rolled past them at some distance; but the gust of win… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The avalanche rolled past them at some distance; but the gust of wind that followed, like the storm-wings of the avalanche, snapped asunder the trees and bushes over which it swept, as if they had been but dry rushes, and threw them about in every direction. Who acts: avalanche, gust, branches. A se
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 45

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The avalanche rolled past them at some distance; but the gust of wind that followed, like the storm-wings of the avalanche, snapped asunder the trees and bushes over which it swept, as if they had been but dry rushes, and threw them about in every direction.

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**Who acts:** avalanche, gust, branches · **What happens:** roll, follow, snap, asunder, sweep, be · **To what, where:** storm wings, trees, branches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (avalanche, gust, branches), 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:pg27200:54:45
# text = The avalanche rolled past them at some distance; but the gust of wind that followed, like the storm-wings of the avalanche, snapped asunder the trees and bushes over which it swept, as if they had been but dry rushes, and threw them about in every direction.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gust	gust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	asunder	asunder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
42	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	cop	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	about	about	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	det	_	_
53	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | the avalanche |  |  |  |  | past branches *= branch*; at some distance | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme past they=Source at distance=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the gust of wind | the storm wings of the avalanche |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 3 | **snap** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **asunder** | infinitive |  | the trees and bushes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sweep** | past | gust |  |  | the trees and bushes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | as dry rushes | tree rules |
| 7 | **throw** | past |  | branches *= branch* |  |  |  | about every direction | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme about direction=Destination |

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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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