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title: The storm would not leave this little sentry-house alone, but must n… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The storm would not leave this little sentry-house alone, but must needs tear it from its fastenings, and roll it down the street; and, wonderfully enough, it stopped opposite to the door of the dirty journeyman plasterer, who had saved three lives at the last fire, but the sentry-house thought noth
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 36

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The storm would not leave this little sentry-house alone, but must needs tear it from its fastenings, and roll it down the street; and, wonderfully enough, it stopped opposite to the door of the dirty journeyman plasterer, who had saved three lives at the last fire, but the sentry-house thought nothing of that.

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**Who acts:** storm, this, sentry house · **What happens:** not leave, house, need, tear, roll down, stop · **To what, where:** storm, dirty journeyman plasterer, last fire, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, this, sentry house), 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:pg27200:184:36
# text = The storm would not leave this little sentry-house alone, but must needs tear it from its fastenings, and roll it down the street; and, wonderfully enough, it stopped opposite to the door of the dirty journeyman plasterer, who had saved three lives at the last fire, but the sentry-house thought nothing of that.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fastenings	fastening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
36	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	journeyman	journeyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	plasterer	plasterer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
56	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
58	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
61	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
62	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	61	obj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | would | the storm |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **house** |  | this |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | must | the storm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **tear** *not said to happen* | infinitive | the storm *not said here* | storm |  |  |  | from storm's fastenings | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from fastening=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **roll down** | infinitive | the storm *not said here* | storm |  |  |  | the street *obl:unmarked* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | past | storm |  |  |  |  | opposite, wonderfully *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  | the dirty journeyman plasterer |  | the last fire |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the sentry house | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme |

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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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