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title: They did not like to drive the stork away; therefore the old shed wa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They did not like to drive the stork away; therefore the old shed was left standing, and the poor woman who dwelt in it allowed to stay. Who acts: roofs, old shed, poor woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 182

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They did not like to drive the stork away; therefore the old shed was left standing, and the poor woman who dwelt in it allowed to stay.

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**Who acts:** roofs, old shed, poor woman · **What happens:** not like, drive away, leave, stand, dwell, allow · **To what, where:** stork, old shed, shed

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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 (roofs, old shed, poor woman), 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:pg27200:212:182
# text = They did not like to drive the stork away; therefore the old shed was left standing, and the poor woman who dwelt in it allowed to stay.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | roofs *= roof* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **drive away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | roofs *= roof* *not said here* | the stork |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the old shed |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | the old shed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dwell** | past | the poor woman |  |  | shed |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 6 | **allow** | past | the poor woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the poor woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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