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title: Then there is the desert; if you went there, your eyes would soon be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there is the desert; if you went there, your eyes would soon be full of sand with the lightest breeze, and if it should blow great guns, you would most likely find yourself in a sand-drift. Who acts: desert, you, eyes, breeze. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 53

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Then there is the desert; if you went there, your eyes would soon be full of sand with the lightest breeze, and if it should blow great guns, you would most likely find yourself in a sand-drift.

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**Who acts:** desert, you, eyes, breeze · **What happens:** be, go, blow, find · **To what, where:** great guns, yourself, sand drift

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desert, you, eyes, breeze), 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:pg27200:84:53
# text = Then there is the desert; if you went there, your eyes would soon be full of sand with the lightest breeze, and if it should blow great guns, you would most likely find yourself in a sand-drift.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lightest	light	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
38	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	drift	drift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the desert |  |  | there | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would | your eyes |  |  |  |  | of sand with the lightest breeze; full, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | breeze | great guns |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gun=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | would | you | yourself |  | a sand drift |  | likely *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic |

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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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