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title: The eldest of the company--the water gourd hung at his girdle, and o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The eldest of the company--the water gourd hung at his girdle, and on his head was a little bag of unleavened bread--drew a square in the sand with his staff, and wrote in it a few words out of the Koran, and then the whole caravan passed over the consecrated spot. Who acts: eldest. A sentence of «F
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 6

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The eldest of the company--the water gourd hung at his girdle, and on his head was a little bag of unleavened bread--drew a square in the sand with his staff, and wrote in it a few words out of the Koran, and then the whole caravan passed over the consecrated spot.

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**Who acts:** eldest · **What happens:** hang, be, draw, write, pass, consecrate · **To what, where:** whole caravan, girdle, little bag, head, square, sand

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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 (eldest), 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:pg27200:111:6
# text = The eldest of the company--the water gourd hung at his girdle, and on his head was a little bag of unleavened bread--drew a square in the sand with his staff, and wrote in it a few words out of the Koran, and then the whole caravan passed over the consecrated spot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gourd	gourd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	unleavened	unleavened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Koran	Koran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
54	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl	_	_
55	over	over	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	amod	_	_
58	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the eldest of the company | the whole caravan |  | halt's girdle |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at girdle=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a little bag |  | halt's head |  | of unleavened bread | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | past | the eldest of the company *not said here* | a square |  | the sand with halt's staff |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent square=Theme in sand=Destination |
| 4 | **write** | past | the eldest of the company *not said here* | a few words |  | sand |  | out the Koran | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in it=Destination |
| 5 | **pass** | participle |  | the whole caravan *not said here* |  | the consecrated spot |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over spot=Location |
| 6 | **consecrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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