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title: "I have rushed wildly across the savannahs; I have stroked the wild… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I have rushed wildly across the savannahs; I have stroked the wild horses, and shaken the cocoa-nuts from the trees. Who acts: old woman. 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 73

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"I have rushed wildly across the savannahs; I have stroked the wild horses, and shaken the cocoa-nuts from the trees.

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**Who acts:** old woman · **What happens:** rush, stroke, shake · **To what, where:** savannahs, wild horses, cocoa nuts, trees

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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 (old woman), 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:pg27200:140:73
# text = "I have rushed wildly across the savannahs; I have stroked the wild horses, and shaken the cocoa-nuts from the trees.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	savannahs	savannah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stroked	stroke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the old woman *= woman* |  |  | the savannahs |  | wildly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across savannah=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stroke** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the old woman *= woman* | the wild horses |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Experiencer |
| 3 | **shake** *in a quote* | participle | the old woman *= woman* *not said here* | the cocoa nuts |  | the trees |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nut=Theme from tree=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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