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title: I went out with the Hottentots, who were lion-hunting in the Kaffir… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I went out with the Hottentots, who were lion-hunting in the Kaffir land, where the plains are covered with grass the color of a green olive; and here I ran races with the ostrich, but I soon outstripped him in swiftness. Who acts: I, Hottentots. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 86

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I went out with the Hottentots, who were lion-hunting in the Kaffir land, where the plains are covered with grass the color of a green olive; and here I ran races with the ostrich, but I soon outstripped him in swiftness.

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**Who acts:** I, Hottentots · **What happens:** go out, be, cover, run, outstrip · **To what, where:** lion hunting, Kaffir land, plains, races, hunting

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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, Hottentots), 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:pg27200:140:86
# text = I went out with the Hottentots, who were lion-hunting in the Kaffir land, where the plains are covered with grass the color of a green olive; and here I ran races with the ostrich, but I soon outstripped him in swiftness.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Hottentots	Hottentot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
44	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | I |  |  |  |  | with the Hottentots; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hottentot=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Hottentots | lion hunting |  | the Kaffir land |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | present · passive |  | the plains |  |  |  | with grass | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | past | I | races |  | here |  | with the ostrich | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Product with ostrich=Material |
| 5 | **outstrip** | past | I | hunting |  |  |  | in swiftness; soon *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot he=Theme in swiftness=Attribute |

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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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