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title: They crept under the straw, and drew an old bit of ragged curtain ov… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They crept under the straw, and drew an old bit of ragged curtain over themselves by way of coverlet. " Who acts: children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 4

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They crept under the straw, and drew an old bit of ragged curtain over themselves by way of coverlet. "

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** creep, draw · **To what, where:** straw, old bit

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:138:4
# text = They crept under the straw, and drew an old bit of ragged curtain over themselves by way of coverlet. "
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | children *= child* |  |  | the straw |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under straw=Trajectory |
| 2 | **draw** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | a old bit of ragged curtain |  |  |  | over children *= child*; by way of coverlet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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