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title: Palle Dyre was out hunting foxes, and the gracious lady was nowhere… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Palle Dyre was out hunting foxes, and the gracious lady was nowhere to be found. Who acts: Palle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 103

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Palle Dyre was out hunting foxes, and the gracious lady was nowhere to be found.

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**Who acts:** Palle · **What happens:** hunt, find · **To what, where:** foxes, gracious lady

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palle), 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:pg27200:149:103
# text = Palle Dyre was out hunting foxes, and the gracious lady was nowhere to be found.
1	Palle	Palle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Dyre	Dyre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
13	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past · progressive | Palle | foxes |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | the gracious lady |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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