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title: Two rich farmers who had in our days shot up higher than their own c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two rich farmers who had in our days shot up higher than their own corn-fields, were flung into the ditch; it was a dangerous flute. Who acts: Two rich farmers, flute. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 119

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Two rich farmers who had in our days shot up higher than their own corn-fields, were flung into the ditch; it was a dangerous flute.

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**Who acts:** Two rich farmers, flute · **What happens:** have, shoot up, fling, be · **To what, where:** days, Two rich farmers, ditch, dangerous flute

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two rich farmers, flute), 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:pg27200:155:119
# text = Two rich farmers who had in our days shot up higher than their own corn-fields, were flung into the ditch; it was a dangerous flute.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Two rich farmers |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shoot up** | participle |  | our days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fling** | past · passive |  | Two rich farmers |  | the ditch |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into ditch=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past | flute | a dangerous flute |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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