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title: They flew through rich halls and wretched hovels; wantonness and env… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They flew through rich halls and wretched hovels; wantonness and envy, all the deadly sins, passed before them. Who acts: hands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 80

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They flew through rich halls and wretched hovels; wantonness and envy, all the deadly sins, passed before them.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** fly, pass · **To what, where:** rich halls, wantonness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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:pg27200:2:80
# text = They flew through rich halls and wretched hovels; wantonness and envy, all the deadly sins, passed before them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hovels	hovel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wantonness	wantonness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  | rich halls and wretched hovels |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Location |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | wantonness and envy and all deadly sins *not said here* |  |  | before hands *= hand* |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before they=Location |

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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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