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title: More than an hour elapsed before her two companions could obtain fro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: More than an hour elapsed before her two companions could obtain from the nearest house ropes and poles to assist in raising them; and it was with much exertion that they at last succeeded in raising from the crevasse what appeared to be two dead bodies. Who acts: hour, groan, crevasse. A sentence o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 67

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More than an hour elapsed before her two companions could obtain from the nearest house ropes and poles to assist in raising them; and it was with much exertion that they at last succeeded in raising from the crevasse what appeared to be two dead bodies.

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**Who acts:** hour, groan, crevasse · **What happens:** elapse, obtain, assist, raise, be, succeed · **To what, where:** hour, nearest house ropes, poles, two dead bodies

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, groan, crevasse), 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:pg27200:52:67
# text = More than an hour elapsed before her two companions could obtain from the nearest house ropes and poles to assist in raising them; and it was with much exertion that they at last succeeded in raising from the crevasse what appeared to be two dead bodies.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	exertion	exertion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	raising	raising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	crevasse	crevasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	42	nsubj	_	_
42	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
46	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elapse** | participle |  | a hour *not said here* |  |  | before shriek's two companions |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | could | a hour |  |  | the nearest house ropes and poles |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from rope=Source |
| 3 | **assist** | to-infinitive | a hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **raise** | gerund | a hour *not said here* | poles *= pole* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | groan |  |  |  |  | with much exertion | tree rules |
| 6 | **succeed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **appear** | past | the crevasse |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the crevasse *not said here* | two dead bodies |  |  |  |  | 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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