--- title: And as the wind blew the corpses one against the other, tossing them… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And as the wind blew the corpses one against the other, tossing them to and fro, he thought to himself: “If you are perishing down here by the fire, how those poor things up there must be shaking and shivering!” Who acts: wind, poor things. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/55/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Lea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/) / 55 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 55 And as the wind blew the corpses one against the other, tossing them to and fro, he thought to himself: “If you are perishing down here by the fire, how those poor things up there must be shaking and shivering!” **Who acts:** wind, poor things · **What happens:** blow, toss, fro, think, perish down, shake · **To what, where:** corpses, wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, poor things), 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:pg503:13:55 # text = And as the wind blew the corpses one against the other, tossing them to and fro, he thought to himself: “If you are perishing down here by the fire, how those poor things up there must be shaking and shivering!” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 corpses corpse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 flat _ _ 9 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 tossing toss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 If if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 perishing perish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 ccomp _ _ 29 down down ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 36 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 37 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 41 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux _ _ 43 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 shivering shiver VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | past | the wind | the corpses | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent corpse=Patient | | 2 | **toss** | gerund | the wind *not said here* | corpses *= corpse* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fro** | infinitive | the wind *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wind | | wind | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **perish down** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · progressive | wind | | | here | | by the fire; down *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **shake** *in a quote* | must · progressive | that poor things | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **shiver** *in a quote* | gerund | that poor things *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/56/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)