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title: It is heard in the dark night by the frightened husbandman, driving… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is heard in the dark night by the frightened husbandman, driving by in the heavy sandy road past the convent of Borglum. Who acts: frightened husbandman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 115

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It is heard in the dark night by the frightened husbandman, driving by in the heavy sandy road past the convent of Borglum.

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**Who acts:** frightened husbandman · **What happens:** hear, drive · **To what, where:** incense

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frightened husbandman), 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:pg27200:12:115
# text = It is heard in the dark night by the frightened husbandman, driving by in the heavy sandy road past the convent of Borglum.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	husbandman	husbandman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	past	past	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Borglum	Borglum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · passive | the frightened husbandman | incense |  |  | night |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drive** | gerund | the frightened husbandman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the heavy sandy road past the convent of Borglum | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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