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title: Jurgen and his parents now stood there; the wall and the ramparts st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Jurgen and his parents now stood there; the wall and the ramparts still remained, and red crumbling fragments lay scattered around. Who acts: Jurgen, ramparts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 60

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Jurgen and his parents now stood there; the wall and the ramparts still remained, and red crumbling fragments lay scattered around.

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**Who acts:** Jurgen, ramparts · **What happens:** stand, remain, scatter around · **To what, where:** wall, red crumbling fragments

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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, ramparts), 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:pg27200:159:60
# text = Jurgen and his parents now stood there; the wall and the ramparts still remained, and red crumbling fragments lay scattered around.
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ramparts	rampart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	crumbling	crumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	around	around	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Jurgen and Jurgen's parents | the wall |  | there | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the ramparts |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **scatter around** | present · passive |  | red crumbling fragments |  |  |  | around *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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