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title: The fisherman's little cottage was on the very margin, and the sand… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fisherman's little cottage was on the very margin, and the sand rattled against the window panes; every now and then a violent gust of wind shook the house to its foundation. Who acts: little cottage, violent gust. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 88

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The fisherman's little cottage was on the very margin, and the sand rattled against the window panes; every now and then a violent gust of wind shook the house to its foundation.

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**Who acts:** little cottage, violent gust · **What happens:** be, rattle, shake · **To what, where:** margin, sand, window panes, house, foundation

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little cottage, violent gust), 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:pg27200:158:88
# text = The fisherman's little cottage was on the very margin, and the sand rattled against the window panes; every now and then a violent gust of wind shook the house to its foundation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	gust	gust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fisherman's little cottage |  |  | the margin and the sand |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rattle** | participle |  | the sand *not said here* |  | the window panes |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against pane=Location |
| 3 | **shake** | past | every violent gust of wind | the house |  | wind's foundation |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme to foundation=Trajectory |

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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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