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title: He seized his hunting-flask, but it was empty; he had not thought of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He seized his hunting-flask, but it was empty; he had not thought of filling it before ascending the mountain. Who acts: rain, flask. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 13

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He seized his hunting-flask, but it was empty; he had not thought of filling it before ascending the mountain.

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**Who acts:** rain, flask · **What happens:** seize, be, not think, fill, ascend · **To what, where:** hunting flask, flask, mountain

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, flask), 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:pg27200:63:13
# text = He seized his hunting-flask, but it was empty; he had not thought of filling it before ascending the mountain.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | rain | rain's hunting flask |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | flask |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | rain |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fill** | gerund | rain *not said here* | flask |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **ascend** | gerund | rain *not said here* | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Trajectory |

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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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