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title: Then did the widow yoke the last two oxen that remained to her to a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then did the widow yoke the last two oxen that remained to her to a wagon, and mounted up on the wagon, with her old servant, and travelled away across the heath out of the Danish land. Who acts: last two oxen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of B
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 44

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Then did the widow yoke the last two oxen that remained to her to a wagon, and mounted up on the wagon, with her old servant, and travelled away across the heath out of the Danish land.

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**Who acts:** last two oxen · **What happens:** do, remain, mount up, travel away · **To what, where:** widow yoke, tribunal, wagon, heath

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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 (last two oxen), 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:pg27200:12:44
# text = Then did the widow yoke the last two oxen that remained to her to a wagon, and mounted up on the wagon, with her old servant, and travelled away across the heath out of the Danish land.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	across	across	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the widow yoke  the last two oxen |  |  | then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoke=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the last two oxen |  | tribunal |  |  | to a wagon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mount up** | participle |  |  |  | the wagon |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wagon=Destination |
| 4 | **travel away** | past |  |  |  | the heath |  | out the Danish land; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across heath=Trajectory |

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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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