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title: "The wedding guests are coming," sounded from air and sea. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The wedding guests are coming," sounded from air and sea. Who acts: wedding guests. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 11

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"The wedding guests are coming," sounded from air and sea.

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**Who acts:** wedding guests · **What happens:** come, sound · **To what, where:** air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding guests), 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:pg27200:65:11
# text = "The wedding guests are coming," sounded from air and sea.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the wedding guests |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | past |  |  |  | air and sea |  |  | tree rules |

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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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