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title: The Grasshopper seated himself out in the ditch, and thought and con… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Grasshopper seated himself out in the ditch, and thought and considered how things happened in the world. Who acts: Grasshopper, things. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 30

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The Grasshopper seated himself out in the ditch, and thought and considered how things happened in the world.

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**Who acts:** Grasshopper, things · **What happens:** seat out, think, consider, happen · **To what, where:** Grasshopper, ditch, world

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper, things), 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:pg27200:68:30
# text = The Grasshopper seated himself out in the ditch, and thought and considered how things happened in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **seat out** | past | the Grasshopper | Grasshopper |  | the ditch |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in ditch=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consider** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **happen** | past | things |  |  | the world |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=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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