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title: So they laid him upon a cart, and harnessed two oxen to it; and the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So they laid him upon a cart, and harnessed two oxen to it; and the oxen ran off with the sailor over heath and moor to the ocean, as if they had been stung by an adder. Who acts: peasants, oxen, adder. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-h
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 103

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So they laid him upon a cart, and harnessed two oxen to it; and the oxen ran off with the sailor over heath and moor to the ocean, as if they had been stung by an adder.

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**Who acts:** peasants, oxen, adder · **What happens:** lay, harness, run off, sting · **To what, where:** man, cart, two oxen, peasants

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, oxen, adder), 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:pg27200:159:103
# text = So they laid him upon a cart, and harnessed two oxen to it; and the oxen ran off with the sailor over heath and moor to the ocean, as if they had been stung by an adder.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	adder	adder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | peasants *= peasant* | man |  | a cart |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon cart=Destination |
| 2 | **harness** | past | peasants *= peasant* *not said here* | two oxen | cart |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ox=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **run off** | past | the oxen |  |  |  |  | with the sailor over heath and moor; to the ocean *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ocean=Result |
| 4 | **sting** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | a adder | peasants *= peasant* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

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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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