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title: Well, one day some people came, who took hold of the flax, and pulle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, one day some people came, who took hold of the flax, and pulled it up by the roots; this was painful; then it was laid in water as if they intended to drown it; and, after that, placed near a fire as if it were to be roasted; all this was very shocking. " Who acts: people, this. A sentence of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 14

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Well, one day some people came, who took hold of the flax, and pulled it up by the roots; this was painful; then it was laid in water as if they intended to drown it; and, after that, placed near a fire as if it were to be roasted; all this was very shocking. "

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**Who acts:** people, this · **What happens:** come, take, pull up, be, lay, intend · **To what, where:** hold, water, fire, flax

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, this), 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:pg27200:34:14
# text = Well, one day some people came, who took hold of the flax, and pulled it up by the roots; this was painful; then it was laid in water as if they intended to drown it; and, after that, placed near a fire as if it were to be roasted; all this was very shocking. "
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	after	after	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
48	near	near	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
52	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	63	punct	_	_
59	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	60	det:predet	_	_
60	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	63	nsubj	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
62	very	very	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	63	punct	_	_
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | some people |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | hold of the flax |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 3 | **pull up** | past |  | hold |  |  |  | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | painful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | past · passive |  | hold |  | water | then |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in water=Destination |
| 6 | **intend** | past | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **drown** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | hold |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **place** | participle | some people *not said here* |  |  | a fire | after that |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near fire=Destination |
| 9 | **roast** | past · passive |  | hold |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 10 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | shocking *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **hold** |  |  | the flax |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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