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title: Autumn came, and brought rain and snow with it; the water rose up ri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Autumn came, and brought rain and snow with it; the water rose up right into the town of Skjagen, the sand could not suck it all in, one had to wade through it or go by boat. Who acts: Autumn, water, sand, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 13

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Autumn came, and brought rain and snow with it; the water rose up right into the town of Skjagen, the sand could not suck it all in, one had to wade through it or go by boat.

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**Who acts:** Autumn, water, sand, one · **What happens:** come, bring, rise up, not suck, have, wade · **To what, where:** rain, town, water

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Autumn, water, sand, one), 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:pg27200:162:13
# text = Autumn came, and brought rain and snow with it; the water rose up right into the town of Skjagen, the sand could not suck it all in, one had to wade through it or go by boat.
1	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	wade	wade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	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 | Autumn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Autumn *not said here* | rain and snow |  |  |  | with snow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
| 3 | **rise up** | past | the water |  |  | the town of Skjagen |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **suck** | could | the sand | water |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wade** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  | water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by boat | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by boat=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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