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title: The storm raged over the town of Skjagen; there had not been such a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The storm raged over the town of Skjagen; there had not been such a terrible tempest within the memory of the inhabitants, nor such a rough sea. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 1

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The storm raged over the town of Skjagen; there had not been such a terrible tempest within the memory of the inhabitants, nor such a rough sea.

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**What happens:** rage, have, not be · **To what, where:** storm, town, terrible tempest

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:163:1
# text = The storm raged over the town of Skjagen; there had not been such a terrible tempest within the memory of the inhabitants, nor such a rough sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	raged	rage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | participle |  | the storm nor such rough sea *not said here* |  | the town of Skjagen |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over town=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  | there |  | within the memory of the inhabitants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | participle |  | such terrible tempest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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