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title: Rudy walked hurriedly, while the clouds of mist gathered round him. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy walked hurriedly, while the clouds of mist gathered round him. Who acts: Rudy, clouds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 9

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Rudy walked hurriedly, while the clouds of mist gathered round him.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, clouds · **What happens:** walk, gather, cloud · **To what, where:** mist

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, clouds), 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:pg27200:63:9
# text = Rudy walked hurriedly, while the clouds of mist gathered round him.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | past | the clouds of mist |  |  |  |  | round Rudy | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cloud** |  |  | mist |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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