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title: Why, running about the fields, and blowing out the will-o'-the-wisps… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, running about the fields, and blowing out the will-o'-the-wisps, who so good-naturedly came and brought their torches. Who acts: wisps. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 103

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Why, running about the fields, and blowing out the will-o'-the-wisps, who so good-naturedly came and brought their torches.

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**Who acts:** wisps · **What happens:** run, blow out, come, bring · **To what, where:** torches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wisps), 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:pg27200:31:103
# text = Why, running about the fields, and blowing out the will-o'-the-wisps, who so good-naturedly came and brought their torches.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	wisps	wisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	naturedly	naturedly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the fields | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about field=Trajectory |
| 2 | **blow out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the wisps |  |  |  |  | naturedly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past | the wisps *not said here* | lads's torches |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent torch=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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