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title: He came twice a year in a cart, painted red with blue and white tuli… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He came twice a year in a cart, painted red with blue and white tulips upon it, and full of eels; it was covered and locked like a box, two dun oxen drew it, and Jurgen was allowed to guide them. Who acts: Jurgen, two dun oxen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 35

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He came twice a year in a cart, painted red with blue and white tulips upon it, and full of eels; it was covered and locked like a box, two dun oxen drew it, and Jurgen was allowed to guide them.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, two dun oxen · **What happens:** come, paint, cover, lock, draw, allow · **To what, where:** cart, Jurgen, oxen

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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 (Jurgen, two dun oxen), 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:pg27200:159:35
# text = He came twice a year in a cart, painted red with blue and white tulips upon it, and full of eels; it was covered and locked like a box, two dun oxen drew it, and Jurgen was allowed to guide them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	dun	dun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Jurgen |  |  | a cart | year | twice *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cart=Location |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  | a cart *not said here* |  |  |  | red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cover** | past · passive |  | cart |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a box | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **draw** | past | two dun oxen | cart |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **allow** | past · passive |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **guide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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