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title: There was another kind of sweeping taking place at Waldemar Daa's, i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was another kind of sweeping taking place at Waldemar Daa's, in the castle of Borreby. Who acts: kind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 140

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There was another kind of sweeping taking place at Waldemar Daa's, in the castle of Borreby.

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**Who acts:** kind · **What happens:** be, sweep, take · **To what, where:** place, Waldemar Daa

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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:pg27200:212:140
# text = There was another kind of sweeping taking place at Waldemar Daa's, in the castle of Borreby.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Daa	Daa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Borreby	Borreby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | another kind |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sweep** | gerund | another kind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | another kind *not said here* | place |  | Waldemar Daa |  | in the castle of Borreby | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in castle=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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