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title: Waggon after waggon stood side by side, while the horses and oxen ha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Waggon after waggon stood side by side, while the horses and oxen had been turned out to graze on the scanty pasture. Who acts: Waggon. 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 every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 85

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Waggon after waggon stood side by side, while the horses and oxen had been turned out to graze on the scanty pasture.

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**Who acts:** Waggon · **What happens:** stand, turn out, graze · **To what, where:** side, horses

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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 (Waggon), 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:pg27200:159:85
# text = Waggon after waggon stood side by side, while the horses and oxen had been turned out to graze on the scanty pasture.
1	Waggon	waggon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	waggon	waggon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	graze	graze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	scanty	scanty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Waggon after waggon | side |  |  |  | by side | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination |
| 2 | **turn out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the horses and oxen |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **graze** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on the scanty pasture | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on pasture=Patient |

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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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