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title: And the dogs fell upon the judges and all the councillors; seized on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the dogs fell upon the judges and all the councillors; seized one by the legs, and another by the nose, and tossed them many feet high in the air, so that they fell down and were dashed to pieces. Who acts: dogs, legs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 109

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And the dogs fell upon the judges and all the councillors; seized one by the legs, and another by the nose, and tossed them many feet high in the air, so that they fell down and were dashed to pieces.

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**Who acts:** dogs, legs · **What happens:** fall, seize, toss, fall down, dash · **To what, where:** judges, one, legs, pieces

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, legs), 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:pg27200:193:109
# text = And the dogs fell upon the judges and all the councillors; seized one by the legs, and another by the nose, and tossed them many feet high in the air, so that they fell down and were dashed to pieces.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
39	down	down	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the dogs |  |  | the judges and all councillors |  | by the nose | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon judge=Location |
| 2 | **seize** | participle | the dogs *not said here* | one |  |  |  | by the legs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **toss** | past | the dogs *not said here* | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **fall down** | past | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dash** | past · passive | legs *= leg* *not said here* |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: to piece=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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