--- title: So they went to live in the mud hut in the open field, and I wandere… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: So they went to live in the mud hut in the open field, and I wandered away, over moor and meadow, through bare bushes and leafless forests, to the open sea, to the broad shores in other lands, 'Whir-r-r, whir-r-r! Who acts: walls, I, Whir. 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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, I, Whir), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:212:165 # text = So they went to live in the mud hut in the open field, and I wandered away, over moor and meadow, through bare bushes and leafless forests, to the open sea, to the broad shores in other lands, 'Whir-r-r, whir-r-r! 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 moor moor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 leafless leafless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 shores shore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 Whir whir NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 r r NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 r r NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 52 whir whir NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 r r NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 r r NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | walls *= wall* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | walls *= wall* *not said here* | | | the mud hut in the open field | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | | 3 | **wander away** | past | I | | | moor and meadow | | through bare bushes and leafless forests; to the broad shores in other lands and r r and r r; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | | 4 | **r** | | Whir | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **r** | | whir | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/164/) - next →: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/166/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/)