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title: A Story from the Sand-hills The Saucy Boy The Shadow The Shepherdess… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A Story from the Sand-hills The Saucy Boy The Shadow The Shepherdess and the Sheep The Silver Shilling The Shirt-collar The Snow Man The Snow Queen The Snowdrop Something Soup from a Sausage Skewer The Storks The Storm Shakes the Shield The Story of a Mother The Sunbeam and the Captive The Swan's Ne
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, sentence 18

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A Story from the Sand-hills The Saucy Boy The Shadow The Shepherdess and the Sheep The Silver Shilling The Shirt-collar The Snow Man The Snow Queen The Snowdrop Something Soup from a Sausage Skewer The Storks The Storm Shakes the Shield The Story of a Mother The Sunbeam and the Captive The Swan's Nest The Swineherd

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**Who acts:** Silver, Storks · **What happens:** shill, shake · **To what, where:** Shirt collar, Shield

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silver, Storks), 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:pg27200:1:18
# text = A Story from the Sand-hills The Saucy Boy The Shadow The Shepherdess and the Sheep The Silver Shilling The Shirt-collar The Snow Man The Snow Queen The Snowdrop Something Soup from a Sausage Skewer The Storks The Storm Shakes the Shield The Story of a Mother The Sunbeam and the Captive The Swan's Nest The Swineherd
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Sand	Sand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Saucy	Saucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Shadow	Shadow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Shepherdess	Shepherdess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sheep	Sheep	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
20	Shilling	shill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	Something	Something	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Soup	Soup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Sausage	Sausage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Skewer	Skewer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Storks	Stork	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
41	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Storm	Storm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	Shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Shield	Shield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Sunbeam	Sunbeam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Captive	Captive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
56	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Swan	Swan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	's	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	Nest	Nest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
60	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	Swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shill** | gerund | the Silver *not said here* | the Shirt collar  the Snow Man and the Snow Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | present | the Storks | the Shield |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shield=Patient |

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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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