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title: He had allowed wild thoughts to chase each other in his heart, and a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had allowed wild thoughts to chase each other in his heart, and a fierce tornado to break loose. Who acts: Rudy, fierce tornado. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 12

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He had allowed wild thoughts to chase each other in his heart, and a fierce tornado to break loose.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, fierce tornado · **What happens:** allow, chase, break · **To what, where:** Rudy, each, heart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, fierce tornado), 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:pg27200:64:12
# text = He had allowed wild thoughts to chase each other in his heart, and a fierce tornado to break loose.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obj	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tornado	tornado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	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 | **allow** | past · perfect · passive |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chase** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* | each |  | Rudy's heart |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme in heart=Trajectory |
| 3 | **break** | to-infinitive | a fierce tornado |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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