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title: The oxen which drew the waggon stopped every now and then, where a p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The oxen which drew the waggon stopped every now and then, where a patch of fresh grass appeared amid the heather. Who acts: oxen, patch. 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 the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 72

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The oxen which drew the waggon stopped every now and then, where a patch of fresh grass appeared amid the heather.

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**Who acts:** oxen, patch · **What happens:** draw, stop, appear · **To what, where:** waggon, every, heather

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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 (oxen, patch), 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:pg27200:159:72
# text = The oxen which drew the waggon stopped every now and then, where a patch of fresh grass appeared amid the heather.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oxen	oxen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	waggon	waggon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | the oxen | the waggon |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waggon=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | past | the oxen | every |  |  | now |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality every=Eventuality |
| 3 | **appear** | past | a patch of fresh grass |  |  | the heather | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amid heather=Location |

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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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