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title: No hostile tribes met them in their pathless route, no storms arose,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No hostile tribes met them in their pathless route, no storms arose, no columns of sand whirled destruction over the journeying caravan. Who acts: hostile tribes, storms, columns. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 13

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No hostile tribes met them in their pathless route, no storms arose, no columns of sand whirled destruction over the journeying caravan.

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**Who acts:** hostile tribes, storms, columns · **What happens:** meet, arise, whirl, journey · **To what, where:** rocks, pathless route, columns, destruction, journeying caravan

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hostile tribes, storms, columns), 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:pg27200:111:13
# text = No hostile tribes met them in their pathless route, no storms arose, no columns of sand whirled destruction over the journeying caravan.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pathless	pathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | no hostile tribes | rocks *= rock* |  | rocks's pathless route |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **arise** | past | no storms | no columns of sand |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **whirl** | participle | no columns of sand *not said here* | destruction |  | the journeying caravan |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent destruction=Theme over caravan=Destination |
| 4 | **journey** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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