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title: And the third flame led him to Greenland's wretched huts, where the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the third flame led him to Greenland's wretched huts, where the preacher, Hans Egede, ruled with love in every word and action. Who acts: third flame. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 27

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And the third flame led him to Greenland's wretched huts, where the preacher, Hans Egede, ruled with love in every word and action.

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**Who acts:** third flame · **What happens:** lead, rule · **To what, where:** Denmark, wretched huts, word

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third flame), 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:pg27200:50:27
# text = And the third flame led him to Greenland's wretched huts, where the preacher, Hans Egede, ruled with love in every word and action.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	preacher	preacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	Egede	Egede	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the third flame | Denmark |  | Greenland's wretched huts |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hut=Destination |
| 2 | **rule** | past | the third flame *not said here* |  |  | every word and action |  | with love | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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