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title: The dustman was there with his cart, which was full, and looked like… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The dustman was there with his cart, which was full, and looked like a sample of streets on moving-day. Who acts: dustman, cart. 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 9

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The dustman was there with his cart, which was full, and looked like a sample of streets on moving-day.

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**Who acts:** dustman, cart · **What happens:** be, look, move, sample · **To what, where:** streets

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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 (dustman, cart), 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:pg27200:138:9
# text = The dustman was there with his cart, which was full, and looked like a sample of streets on moving-day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dustman	dustman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dustman |  |  |  |  | with Christmas's cart; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Christmas's cart |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a sample of streets | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sample** |  |  | streets |  |  |  |  | nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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