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title: Earth's garden reaper! from the grave's cold bed The soul on Jacob's… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Earth's garden reaper! from the grave's cold bed The soul on Jacob's ladder takes her flight. Who acts: garden reaper. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 63

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Earth's garden reaper! from the grave's cold bed The soul on Jacob's ladder takes her flight.

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**Who acts:** garden reaper · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** flight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden reaper), 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:pg27200:45:63
# text = Earth's garden reaper! from the grave's cold bed The soul on Jacob's ladder takes her flight.
1	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	reaper	reaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **take** | present | Earth's garden reaper from the grave's cold bed | soul's flight |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |

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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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