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title: In our country it was still autumn, though late in the season; and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In our country it was still autumn, though late in the season; and they thought of that in their distant exile, and often pictured to themselves the yellow leaves on the trees at home. Who acts: country, natives. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Utterm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 9

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In our country it was still autumn, though late in the season; and they thought of that in their distant exile, and often pictured to themselves the yellow leaves on the trees at home.

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**Who acts:** country, natives · **What happens:** be, think, picture · **To what, where:** autumn, country, distant exile, yellow leaves, natives, trees

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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 (country, natives), 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:pg27200:205:9
# text = In our country it was still autumn, though late in the season; and they thought of that in their distant exile, and often pictured to themselves the yellow leaves on the trees at home.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | country | autumn |  | our country | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | natives *= native* |  |  | natives's distant exile |  | of that | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **picture** | participle | natives *= native* *not said here* | the yellow leaves | natives *= native* | the trees at home |  | often *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme to themselves=be' |

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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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