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title: Next he crept on his hands and knees through an overfilled butcher's… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Next he crept on his hands and knees through an overfilled butcher's shop; there was meat, nothing but meat, wherever he stepped; this was the heart of a rich, respectable man, whose name is doubtless in the directory. Who acts: rain, meat, this, name. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 49

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Next he crept on his hands and knees through an overfilled butcher's shop; there was meat, nothing but meat, wherever he stepped; this was the heart of a rich, respectable man, whose name is doubtless in the directory.

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**Who acts:** rain, meat, this, name · **What happens:** creep, overfill, be, step · **To what, where:** hands, heart, directory

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, meat, this, name), 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:pg27200:43:49
# text = Next he crept on his hands and knees through an overfilled butcher's shop; there was meat, nothing but meat, wherever he stepped; this was the heart of a rich, respectable man, whose name is doubtless in the directory.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	overfilled	overfill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	conj	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	directory	directory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | rain |  |  | rain's hands and knees |  | through a overfilled butcher's shop; next *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **overfill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | meat but meat |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **step** | past | rain |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | this | the heart |  |  |  | of a rich respectable man | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | name |  |  | the directory |  | doubtless *property* | tree rules |

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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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