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title: They had ventured too high, or the wind had carried them here and le… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had ventured too high, or the wind had carried them here and left them to die of cold. Who acts: insects. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 48

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They had ventured too high, or the wind had carried them here and left them to die of cold.

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**Who acts:** insects · **What happens:** venture, carry, leave, die · **To what, where:** wind, insects

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (insects), 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:pg27200:53:48
# text = They had ventured too high, or the wind had carried them here and left them to die of cold.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ventured	venture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | past · perfect | insects *= insect* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wind |  | here |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Value |
| 3 | **leave** | past | insects *= insect* *not said here* | insects *= insect* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive | insects *= insect* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of cold | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer |

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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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