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title: It was burdock from one end to the other; and here lived the last tw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was burdock from one end to the other; and here lived the last two surviving snails. Who acts: place, burdock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 7

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It was burdock from one end to the other; and here lived the last two surviving snails.

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**Who acts:** place, burdock · **What happens:** be, live, survive · **To what, where:** burdock, one end, last two surviving snails

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, burdock), 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:pg27200:48:7
# text = It was burdock from one end to the other; and here lived the last two surviving snails.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	burdock	burdock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	surviving	survive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | place | burdock |  |  | from one end to the other |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | burdock *not said here* | the last two surviving snails |  | here |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme snail=Location |
| 3 | **survive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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