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title: "Crack" went the shell as it burst, and the five peas rolled out int… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Crack" went the shell as it burst, and the five peas rolled out into the bright sunshine. Who acts: Crack. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 12

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"Crack" went the shell as it burst, and the five peas rolled out into the bright sunshine.

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**Who acts:** Crack · **What happens:** go, burst, roll out · **To what, where:** shell, five peas, bright sunshine

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crack), 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:pg27200:141:12
# text = "Crack" went the shell as it burst, and the five peas rolled out into the bright sunshine.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Crack | the shell |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme |
| 2 | **burst** | past | Crack |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roll out** | participle · passive |  | the five peas |  | the bright sunshine |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into sunshine=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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