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title: The air was filled with the clashing of arms and the hissing of arro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The air was filled with the clashing of arms and the hissing of arrows, as if a storm of hail was descending upon the earth. Who acts: storm, hail. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 79

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The air was filled with the clashing of arms and the hissing of arrows, as if a storm of hail was descending upon the earth.

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**Who acts:** storm, hail · **What happens:** fill, descend, hiss, storm · **To what, where:** air, arrows

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, hail), 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:pg27200:87:79
# text = The air was filled with the clashing of arms and the hissing of arrows, as if a storm of hail was descending upon the earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clashing	clashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hissing	hissing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the air |  |  |  | with the clashing of arms and the hissing of arrows | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with clashing=Instrument |
| 2 | **descend** | past · progressive | a storm of hail |  |  |  |  | upon the earth | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hiss** |  |  | arrows |  |  |  |  | nom hissing «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **storm** |  | hail |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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