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title: This pleased me; so I raised a storm, which rooted up old trees, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This pleased me; so I raised a storm, which rooted up old trees, and sent them floating down the river." Who acts: I, storm, ducks. 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 71

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This pleased me; so I raised a storm, which rooted up old trees, and sent them floating down the river."

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**Who acts:** I, storm, ducks · **What happens:** raise, root up, send, float · **To what, where:** storm, old trees, ducks, river

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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 (I, storm, ducks), 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:pg27200:140:71
# text = This pleased me; so I raised a storm, which rooted up old trees, and sent them floating down the river."
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rooted	root	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | I | a storm |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme |
| 2 | **root up** | past | a storm | old trees |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | past | I *not said here* | ducks *= duck* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **float** | gerund | ducks *= duck* *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down river=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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