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title: What became of the cows in the field, the old gold and silver vessel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What became of the cows in the field, the old gold and silver vessels in cupboards and chests, and even the house and home itself? 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 95

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What became of the cows in the field, the old gold and silver vessels in cupboards and chests, and even the house and home itself?

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**What happens:** become · **To what, where:** house, 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: 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:pg27200:212:95
# text = What became of the cows in the field, the old gold and silver vessels in cupboards and chests, and even the house and home itself?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	chests	chest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past |  | the house and home  gold |  |  |  | in the field *result*; of the cows | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in field=Result |

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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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