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title: Two winters passed, and when the third arrived, the tree had grown s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two winters passed, and when the third arrived, the tree had grown so tall that the hare was obliged to run round it. Who acts: Two winters, third, tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 9

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Two winters passed, and when the third arrived, the tree had grown so tall that the hare was obliged to run round it.

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**Who acts:** Two winters, third, tree · **What happens:** pass, arrive, grow, oblige, run · **To what, where:** hare

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two winters, third, tree), 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:pg27200:33:9
# text = Two winters passed, and when the third arrived, the tree had grown so tall that the hare was obliged to run round it.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Two winters |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | the third |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect | the tree |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the hare |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **run** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | round hare | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory |

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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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