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title: And he had to sit out in the rain in the worst weather, and get wet… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he had to sit out in the rain in the worst weather, and get wet to the skin, and let the cold wind dry the clothes on his back afterwards. Who acts: boy, cold wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 16

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And he had to sit out in the rain in the worst weather, and get wet to the skin, and let the cold wind dry the clothes on his back afterwards.

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**Who acts:** boy, cold wind · **What happens:** have, sit out, get, let, dry · **To what, where:** rain, cold wind, clothes, back

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, cold wind), 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:pg27200:5:16
# text = And he had to sit out in the rain in the worst weather, and get wet to the skin, and let the cold wind dry the clothes on his back afterwards.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit out** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  | the rain |  | in the worst weather | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | the cold wind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dry** | infinitive | the cold wind *not said here* | the clothes |  | boy's back |  | afterwards *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clothes=Result |

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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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