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title: The summit of the tree waved to and fro, and bent downwards as if in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The summit of the tree waved to and fro, and bent downwards as if in his silent longing he sought for something. Who acts: summit. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 65

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The summit of the tree waved to and fro, and bent downwards as if in his silent longing he sought for something.

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**Who acts:** summit · **What happens:** wave, fro, seek, long · **To what, where:** silent longing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summit), 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:pg27200:69:65
# text = The summit of the tree waved to and fro, and bent downwards as if in his silent longing he sought for something.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
13	downwards	downwards	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | past | the summit of the tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive | the summit of the tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | past | summit |  |  | summit's silent longing |  | for something | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in longing=Location for something=Theme |
| 4 | **long** |  | summit |  |  |  |  |  | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: 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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