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title: After some time, the linen was taken into the house, placed under th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After some time, the linen was taken into the house, placed under the scissors, and cut and torn into pieces, and then pricked with needles. 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 32

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After some time, the linen was taken into the house, placed under the scissors, and cut and torn into pieces, and then pricked with needles.

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**What happens:** take, place, cut, tear, prick · **To what, where:** linen, house, scissors, pieces

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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: 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:pg27200:34:32
# text = After some time, the linen was taken into the house, placed under the scissors, and cut and torn into pieces, and then pricked with needles.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	pricked	prick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | the linen |  | the house | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into house=Destination |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  |  |  | the scissors |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under scissors=Destination |
| 3 | **cut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into piece=Destination |
| 5 | **prick** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | with needles | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with needle=Instrument |

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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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