--- title: He hid the trunk in the wood under some dry leaves, and then went in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He hid the trunk in the wood under some dry leaves, and then went into the town: he could so this very well, for the Turks always go about dressed in dressing-gowns and slippers, as he was himself. Who acts: bottom. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/) / 13 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 13 He hid the trunk in the wood under some dry leaves, and then went into the town: he could so this very well, for the Turks always go about dressed in dressing-gowns and slippers, as he was himself. **Who acts:** bottom · **What happens:** hide, go, go about, dress, be · **To what, where:** trunk, wood, town, dressing gowns, bottom This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:35:13 # text = He hid the trunk in the wood under some dry leaves, and then went into the town: he could so this very well, for the Turks always go about dressed in dressing-gowns and slippers, as he was himself. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 10 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Turks Turk PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 30 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 31 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 dressing dressing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 gowns gown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | past | bottom | the trunk | | the wood | | under some dry leaves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient in wood=Location | | 2 | **go** | past | | | | the town | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **go about** | present | bottom *not said here* | | | | | for the Turks; always *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dress** | participle | bottom *not said here* | | | dressing gowns and slippers | | about *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | bottom | bottom | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/14/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)