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title: Whirr, whirr," went the wheel so quickly that the flax could not col… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Whirr, whirr," went the wheel so quickly that the flax could not collect its thoughts. " Who acts: flax, wheel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 19

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Whirr, whirr," went the wheel so quickly that the flax could not collect its thoughts. "

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**Who acts:** flax, wheel · **What happens:** go, not collect, think · **To what, where:** wheel, thoughts

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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 (flax, wheel), 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:pg27200:34:19
# text = Whirr, whirr," went the wheel so quickly that the flax could not collect its thoughts. "
1	Whirr	whirr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	whirr	whirr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past |  | the wheel |  |  |  | Whirr and whirr *vocative*; quickly *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **collect** *in a quote* | could | the flax | wheel's thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *in a quote* |  | wheel |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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