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title: One morning he broke, and sunk down altogether; and, behold, where h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning he broke, and sunk down altogether; and, behold, where he had stood, something like a broomstick remained sticking up in the ground. Who acts: Man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 106

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One morning he broke, and sunk down altogether; and, behold, where he had stood, something like a broomstick remained sticking up in the ground.

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**Who acts:** Man · **What happens:** break, sink down, stand, remain, stick up · **To what, where:** something, ground

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man), 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:pg27200:169:106
# text = One morning he broke, and sunk down altogether; and, behold, where he had stood, something like a broomstick remained sticking up in the ground.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	broomstick	broomstick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | Man |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sink down** | participle | Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stand** | past · perfect | Man | something |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remain** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a broomstick | tree rules |
| 5 | **stick up** | gerund |  |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ground=Destination |

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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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