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title: They brought with them furs and skins in great abundance, so that th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They brought with them furs and skins in great abundance, so that the snow-houses were soon provided with warm carpets, and the furs also served for the sailors to wrap themselves in, when they slept under the roofs of snow, while outside it was freezing with a cold far more severe than in the winte
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 8

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They brought with them furs and skins in great abundance, so that the snow-houses were soon provided with warm carpets, and the furs also served for the sailors to wrap themselves in, when they slept under the roofs of snow, while outside it was freezing with a cold far more severe than in the winter with us.

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**Who acts:** natives, furs, fur · **What happens:** bring, provide, serve, wrap in, sleep, freeze · **To what, where:** furs, great abundance, snow houses, natives, roofs

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives, furs, fur), 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:pg27200:205:8
# text = They brought with them furs and skins in great abundance, so that the snow-houses were soon provided with warm carpets, and the furs also served for the sailors to wrap themselves in, when they slept under the roofs of snow, while outside it was freezing with a cold far more severe than in the winter with us.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	wrap	wrap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
41	under	under	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	56	advmod	_	_
56	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	57	advmod	_	_
57	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	ccomp	_	_
58	than	than	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | natives *= native* | furs and skins |  | great abundance |  | with dresses *= dress* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fur=Theme |
| 2 | **provide** | past · passive |  | the snow houses |  |  |  | with warm carpets; soon *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with carpet=Theme |
| 3 | **serve** | past | the furs |  |  |  |  | for the sailors | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for sailor=Recipient |
| 4 | **wrap in** | to-infinitive | the furs *not said here* | natives *= native* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** | past | natives *= native* |  |  | the roofs of snow |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **freeze** | past · progressive | fur |  |  |  |  | with a cold | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with cold=Theme |

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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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