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title: Into this he cast the Psyche, threw earth in above her, and covered… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Into this he cast the Psyche, threw earth in above her, and covered up the spot with twigs and nettles. Who acts: flashing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 165

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Into this he cast the Psyche, threw earth in above her, and covered up the spot with twigs and nettles.

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**Who acts:** flashing · **What happens:** cast, throw, cover up · **To what, where:** Psyche, this, earth, spot

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flashing), 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:pg27200:151:165
# text = Into this he cast the Psyche, threw earth in above her, and covered up the spot with twigs and nettles.
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | past | flashing | the Psyche |  | this |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent psyche=Material into this=Product |
| 2 | **throw** | past | flashing *not said here* | earth |  |  |  | in marble | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent earth=Theme in she=Destination |
| 3 | **cover up** | participle | flashing *not said here* | the spot |  |  |  | with twigs and nettles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Destination with twig=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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