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title: In his hand he carried a club, cut from a mahogany tree in the Ameri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In his hand he carried a club, cut from a mahogany tree in the American forests, not a trifle to carry. Who acts: Zephyr. 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 64

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In his hand he carried a club, cut from a mahogany tree in the American forests, not a trifle to carry.

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**Who acts:** Zephyr · **What happens:** carry, cut · **To what, where:** club, hand, mahogany tree

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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: who acts (Zephyr), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:8872`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:140:64
# text = In his hand he carried a club, cut from a mahogany tree in the American forests, not a trifle to carry.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trifle	trifle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Zephyr | a club |  | Zephyr's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent club=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **cut** | participle |  | a club *not said here* |  | a mahogany tree in the American forests |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Zephyr *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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