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title: He was carrying his knapsack, which was better stacked with books an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was carrying his knapsack, which was better stacked with books and writings than with clothes. Who acts: historian, knapsack. 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 139

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He was carrying his knapsack, which was better stacked with books and writings than with clothes.

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**Who acts:** historian, knapsack · **What happens:** carry, be, stack · **To what, where:** knapsack

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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 (historian, knapsack), 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:pg27200:149:139
# text = He was carrying his knapsack, which was better stacked with books and writings than with clothes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	stacked	stack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · progressive | historian | historian's knapsack |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | historian's knapsack |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with books and writings; than clothes | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with book=Theme |

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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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