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title: That was very vexatious; but in warm countries everything grows very… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: That was very vexatious; but in warm countries everything grows very quickly; and, after a week had passed, he saw, to his great joy, that a new shadow was growing from his feet, when he walked in the sunshine; so that the root must have remained. Who acts: That, everything, music, new shadow. A sen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 49

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That was very vexatious; but in warm countries everything grows very quickly; and, after a week had passed, he saw, to his great joy, that a new shadow was growing from his feet, when he walked in the sunshine; so that the root must have remained.

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**Who acts:** That, everything, music, new shadow · **What happens:** be, grow, pass, see, walk, remain · **To what, where:** warm countries, week, sunshine, root

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, everything, music, new shadow), 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:pg27200:165:49
# text = That was very vexatious; but in warm countries everything grows very quickly; and, after a week had passed, he saw, to his great joy, that a new shadow was growing from his feet, when he walked in the sunshine; so that the root must have remained.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	vexatious	vexatious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
48	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	54	mark	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	fixed	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux	_	_
54	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | vexatious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | everything |  |  | warm countries |  | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 3 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | a week |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | past | music |  |  |  |  | to music's great joy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **grow** | past · progressive | a new shadow |  |  |  |  | from music's feet | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from foot=Patient |
| 6 | **walk** | past | music |  |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Trajectory |
| 7 | **remain** | must · perfect · passive |  | the root |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 8 | **joy** |  | music |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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