--- title: And when the wind whistled through the forest, and the snow stood in… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when the wind whistled through the forest, and the snow stood in great banks round the door, the father used to take the little boy on his knee and tell him how he caught salmon in the Land of the Sun. Who acts: wind, snow, father. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/) / 59 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 59 And when the wind whistled through the forest, and the snow stood in great banks round the door, the father used to take the little boy on his knee and tell him how he caught salmon in the Land of the Sun. **Who acts:** wind, snow, father · **What happens:** whistle, stand, use, take, tell, catch · **To what, where:** forest, great banks, little boy, knee, father, salmon · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, snow, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:35:59 # text = And when the wind whistled through the forest, and the snow stood in great banks round the door, the father used to take the little boy on his knee and tell him how he caught salmon in the Land of the Sun. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 whistled whistle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 round round ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 38 salmon salmon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Sun. Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whistle** | past | the wind | | | the forest | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location | | 2 | **stand** | past | the snow | | | great banks | | round the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bank=Location | | 3 | **use** | past | the father | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | the father *not said here* | the little boy | | father's knee | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme on knee=Destination | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the father *not said here* | | father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **catch** | past | father | salmon | | the Land of the Sun. | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/)