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title: The well was deep, and therefore the rope had to be a long one; it w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The well was deep, and therefore the rope had to be a long one; it was heavy work turning the handle when any one had to raise a bucketful of water over the edge of the well. Who acts: well, rope, heavy work, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 1

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The well was deep, and therefore the rope had to be a long one; it was heavy work turning the handle when any one had to raise a bucketful of water over the edge of the well.

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**Who acts:** well, rope, heavy work, one · **What happens:** be, have, turn, raise · **To what, where:** long one, heavy work, handle, bucketful, edge

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (well, rope, heavy work, one), 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:pg27200:194:1
# text = The well was deep, and therefore the rope had to be a long one; it was heavy work turning the handle when any one had to raise a bucketful of water over the edge of the well.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
21	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bucketful	bucketful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	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 | the well |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the rope |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the rope *not said here* | a long one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | rope | heavy work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | gerund | heavy work *not said here* | the handle |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | any one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **raise** | to-infinitive | any one *not said here* | a bucketful of water |  | the edge of the well |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucketful=Theme over edge=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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