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title: There were stags, squirrels, antelopes, and hundreds of other beauti… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were stags, squirrels, antelopes, and hundreds of other beautiful and light-footed animals here found a home. Who acts: stags, hundreds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 8

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There were stags, squirrels, antelopes, and hundreds of other beautiful and light-footed animals here found a home.

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**Who acts:** stags, hundreds · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** home

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stags, hundreds), 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:pg27200:143:8
# text = There were stags, squirrels, antelopes, and hundreds of other beautiful and light-footed animals here found a home.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stags	stag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | stags and squirrels and antelopes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | hundreds of other beautiful animals | a home |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |

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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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