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title: When older, she would take cockchafers and beetles, and stick pins t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When older, she would take cockchafers and beetles, and stick pins through them. Who acts: child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 4

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When older, she would take cockchafers and beetles, and stick pins through them.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** take, stick · **To what, where:** cockchafers, pins

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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:pg27200:37:4
# text = When older, she would take cockchafers and beetles, and stick pins through them.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
7	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | child | cockchafers and beetles |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cockchafer=Theme |
| 2 | **stick** | infinitive | child *not said here* | pins |  |  |  | through pins *= pin* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme through they=Destination |

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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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