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title: Farther on were the walruses with pig's heads, and teeth a yard long… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Farther on were the walruses with pig's heads, and teeth a yard long, rolling about like great worms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 48

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Farther on were the walruses with pig's heads, and teeth a yard long, rolling about like great worms.

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**What happens:** be, roll about · **To what, where:** walruses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:140:48
# text = Farther on were the walruses with pig's heads, and teeth a yard long, rolling about like great worms.
1	Farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	walruses	walrus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the walruses |  | with pig's heads | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll about** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like great worms; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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