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title: Up through the clouds came the green summits of the forest trees, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Up through the clouds came the green summits of the forest trees, and beneath him, the oak saw them rising, and growing higher and higher. Who acts: oak, clouds. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 68

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Up through the clouds came the green summits of the forest trees, and beneath him, the oak saw them rising, and growing higher and higher.

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**Who acts:** oak, clouds · **What happens:** come, see, rise, grow · **To what, where:** green summits, clouds

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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 (oak, 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:pg27200:69:68
# text = Up through the clouds came the green summits of the forest trees, and beneath him, the oak saw them rising, and growing higher and higher.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	conj	_	_
26	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the green summits of the forest trees |  | the clouds |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location summit=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the oak | clouds *= cloud* |  |  |  | beneath summit | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | clouds *= cloud* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | clouds *= cloud* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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