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title: Then the hunters roused themselves: three of the longest ladders wer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the hunters roused themselves: three of the longest ladders were brought and bound together; the topmost ring of these ladders would just reach the edge of the rock which hung over the abyss, but no farther. Who acts: hunters, topmost ring, rock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 28

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Then the hunters roused themselves: three of the longest ladders were brought and bound together; the topmost ring of these ladders would just reach the edge of the rock which hung over the abyss, but no farther.

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**Who acts:** hunters, topmost ring, rock · **What happens:** rouse, bring, bind, reach, hang · **To what, where:** hunters, three, edge, abyss

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, topmost ring, rock), 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:pg27200:58:28
# text = Then the hunters roused themselves: three of the longest ladders were brought and bound together; the topmost ring of these ladders would just reach the edge of the rock which hung over the abyss, but no farther.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	roused	rouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	topmost	topmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | past | the hunters | hunters *= hunter* |  |  | then |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive |  | three |  |  |  | of the longest ladders | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme of ladder=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bind** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | would | the topmost ring of this ladders | the edge of the rock |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent edge=Theme |
| 5 | **hang** | past | the rock |  |  | the abyss |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over abyss=Location |

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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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