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title: Then he put into his pocket the largest of the three rods which he h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he put into his pocket the largest of the three rods which he had obtained from the old woman who had fallen and broken her leg. Who acts: John, old woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 87

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Then he put into his pocket the largest of the three rods which he had obtained from the old woman who had fallen and broken her leg.

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**Who acts:** John, old woman · **What happens:** put, obtain, fall, break · **To what, where:** pocket, three rods, leg

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, old woman), 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:pg27200:197:87
# text = Then he put into his pocket the largest of the three rods which he had obtained from the old woman who had fallen and broken her leg.
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	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | John |  |  | John's pocket | then |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **obtain** | past · perfect · passive | the old woman | the three rods |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | participle | the old woman *not said here* | princess's leg |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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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