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title: The wind whirled the faded, fallen leaves; the snow drifted in the v… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind whirled the faded, fallen leaves; the snow drifted in the valleys, as well as upon the mountains, and the Ice Maiden sat in the stately palace which, in winter time, she generally occupied. Who acts: wind, snow, Ice Maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 25

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The wind whirled the faded, fallen leaves; the snow drifted in the valleys, as well as upon the mountains, and the Ice Maiden sat in the stately palace which, in winter time, she generally occupied.

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**Who acts:** wind, snow, Ice Maiden · **What happens:** whirl, fade, fall, drift, sit · **To what, where:** faded leaves, valleys, stately palace

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, snow, Ice Maiden), 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:pg27200:59:25
# text = The wind whirled the faded, fallen leaves; the snow drifted in the valleys, as well as upon the mountains, and the Ice Maiden sat in the stately palace which, in winter time, she generally occupied.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whirl** | past | the wind | the faded leaves |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 2 | **fade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **drift** | participle | the snow |  |  | the valleys as the mountains |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sit** | past | the Ice Maiden |  |  | the stately palace |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent which=Theme in palace=Location |

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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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