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title: They wandered across an open field to a mud hut, which they rented f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They wandered across an open field to a mud hut, which they rented for a dollar and a half a year, a new home, with bare walls and empty cupboards. Who acts: walls, mud hut. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 162

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They wandered across an open field to a mud hut, which they rented for a dollar and a half a year, a new home, with bare walls and empty cupboards.

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**Who acts:** walls, mud hut · **What happens:** wander, rent · **To what, where:** open field

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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 (walls, mud hut), 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:pg27200:212:162
# text = They wandered across an open field to a mud hut, which they rented for a dollar and a half a year, a new home, with bare walls and empty cupboards.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rented	rent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	17	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | walls *= wall* |  |  | a open field |  | to a mud hut | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination |
| 2 | **rent** | past | a mud hut |  |  |  |  | for a dollar and a half  a year and a new home | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dollar=Beneficiary |

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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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