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title: Then he set to work, pulled up the high grass, raised the wooden cro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he set to work, pulled up the high grass, raised the wooden crosses which had fallen down, and replaced the wreaths which had been blown away from their places by the wind, thinking all the time, "Perhaps some one is doing the same for my father's grave, as I am not there to do it." Who acts: J
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 48

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Then he set to work, pulled up the high grass, raised the wooden crosses which had fallen down, and replaced the wreaths which had been blown away from their places by the wind, thinking all the time, "Perhaps some one is doing the same for my father's grave, as I am not there to do it."

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**Who acts:** John, wooden crosses, wind, one · **What happens:** set, work, pull up, raise, fall down, replace · **To what, where:** high grass, wooden crosses, wreaths, same, cross · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, wooden crosses, wind, 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:pg27200:196:48
# text = Then he set to work, pulled up the high grass, raised the wooden crosses which had fallen down, and replaced the wreaths which had been blown away from their places by the wind, thinking all the time, "Perhaps some one is doing the same for my father's grave, as I am not there to do it."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	crosses	cross	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
45	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	obj	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	's	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
59	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
61	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advcl	_	_
62	to	to	PART	TO	_	63	mark	_	_
63	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	advcl	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | John |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pull up** | participle | John *not said here* | the high grass |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme |
| 4 | **raise** | past | John *not said here* | the wooden crosses |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme |
| 5 | **fall down** | past · perfect | the wooden crosses |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **replace** | past | John *not said here* | the wreaths |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wreath=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **blow away** | past · perfect · passive | the wind | the wreaths |  |  |  | from grass's places; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from place=Co-Patient |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | John *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | some one | the same |  |  |  | for my father's grave; perhaps *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
| 10 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | John |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | John *not said here* | cross |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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