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title: Why, there's the shovel that is used for cleaning out the stove, fas… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, there's the shovel that is used for cleaning out the stove, fastened to the pole." Who acts: shovel. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 109

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Why, there's the shovel that is used for cleaning out the stove, fastened to the pole."

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**Who acts:** shovel · **What happens:** be, use, clean out, fasten · **To what, where:** shovel, stove

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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 (shovel), 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:pg27200:169:109
# text = Why, there's the shovel that is used for cleaning out the stove, fastened to the pole."
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the shovel |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive |  | the shovel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **clean out** | gerund |  | the stove |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stove=Patient |
| 4 | **fasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the pole | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to pole=Co-Patient |

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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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