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title: In Norway the peasants go into the mountains and take the cattle the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In Norway the peasants go into the mountains and take the cattle there to find pasture. Who acts: peasants. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 58

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In Norway the peasants go into the mountains and take the cattle there to find pasture.

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**Who acts:** peasants · **What happens:** go, take, find · **To what, where:** Norway, cattle, pasture

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants), 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:pg27200:160:58
# text = In Norway the peasants go into the mountains and take the cattle there to find pasture.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the peasants |  |  | Norway |  | into the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | the peasants *not said here* |  | the cattle | there |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cattle=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the peasants *not said here* | pasture |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Topic |

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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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