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title: A whole row of windows stood open, so that the rude wind could enter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A whole row of windows stood open, so that the rude wind could enter at its pleasure, and the long white curtains waved to and fro in the current of air. Who acts: whole row, rude wind, long white curtains, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pear
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 25

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A whole row of windows stood open, so that the rude wind could enter at its pleasure, and the long white curtains waved to and fro in the current of air.

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**Who acts:** whole row, rude wind, long white curtains, wind · **What happens:** stand, enter, wave, please · **To what, where:** pleasure

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole row, rude wind, long white curtains, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:4960`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:70:25
# text = A whole row of windows stood open, so that the rude wind could enter at its pleasure, and the long white curtains waved to and fro in the current of air.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fro	fro	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a whole row of windows |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enter** | could | the rude wind |  |  | wind's pleasure |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wave** | past | the long white curtains |  |  |  |  | in the current of air | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in current=Theme |
| 4 | **please** |  | wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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