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title: Forth from the town rushed engine after engine, train after train, w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Forth from the town rushed engine after engine, train after train, whistling and screaming at all hours in the day. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 83

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Forth from the town rushed engine after engine, train after train, whistling and screaming at all hours in the day.

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**What happens:** rush, whistle, scream · **To what, where:** engine, town

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. 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:pg27200:24:83
# text = Forth from the town rushed engine after engine, train after train, whistling and screaming at all hours in the day.
1	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past |  | engine |  | the town | after engine and train after train | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent engine=Theme from town=Trajectory |
| 2 | **whistle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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