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title: And the yelling children tore the outspread hide from the window-hol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the yelling children tore the outspread hide from the window-hole, that the dead man might be carried to the ocean, the billowy ocean, that had given him food in life, and that now, in death, was to afford him a place of rest. Who acts: yelling children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christ
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 27

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And the yelling children tore the outspread hide from the window-hole, that the dead man might be carried to the ocean, the billowy ocean, that had given him food in life, and that now, in death, was to afford him a place of rest.

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**Who acts:** yelling children · **What happens:** yell, tore, carry, give, be · **To what, where:** outspread hide, window hole, dead man, ocean, that, man

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yelling children), 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:pg27200:100:27
# text = And the yelling children tore the outspread hide from the window-hole, that the dead man might be carried to the ocean, the billowy ocean, that had given him food in life, and that now, in death, was to afford him a place of rest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	outspread	outspread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	billowy	billowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tore** | past | the yelling children | the outspread hide |  | the window hole |  | in death | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | might · passive |  | the dead man |  | the ocean |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to ocean=Destination |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | that | man | life |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the yelling children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afford *property* | tree rules |

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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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