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title: Marie Grubbe took her gun in her hand and went out to the heath, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Marie Grubbe took her gun in her hand and went out to the heath, and shot hares and foxes, and whatever birds she could hit. Who acts: Marie, birds. 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 cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 89

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Marie Grubbe took her gun in her hand and went out to the heath, and shot hares and foxes, and whatever birds she could hit.

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**Who acts:** Marie, birds · **What happens:** take, go out, shoot, hit · **To what, where:** gun, hand, hares, whatever

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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 (Marie, birds), 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:pg27200:149:89
# text = Marie Grubbe took her gun in her hand and went out to the heath, and shot hares and foxes, and whatever birds she could hit.
1	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
24	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Marie | spirit's gun |  | spirit's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gun=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **go out** | past | Marie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the heath; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shoot** | past |  | hares and foxes |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
| 4 | **hit** | could | birds | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whatever=Co-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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