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title: Suddenly they felt a pull at the shell; it was torn off, and held in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly they felt a pull at the shell; it was torn off, and held in human hands, then slipped into the pocket of a jacket in company with other full pods. Who acts: peas. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 8

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Suddenly they felt a pull at the shell; it was torn off, and held in human hands, then slipped into the pocket of a jacket in company with other full pods.

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**Who acts:** peas · **What happens:** feel, tear off, hold, slip · **To what, where:** pull, shell, human hands, pocket

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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 (peas), 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:pg27200:141:8
# text = Suddenly they felt a pull at the shell; it was torn off, and held in human hands, then slipped into the pocket of a jacket in company with other full pods.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	pods	pod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | peas *= pea* | a pull |  | the shell |  | suddenly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pull=Theme at shell=Location |
| 2 | **tear off** | past · passive |  | shell |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  | human hands |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 4 | **slip** | past | peas *= pea* *not said here* |  |  | the pocket of a jacket | then | in company; with other full pods | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in company=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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