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title: He had just come from the field, he said, and had been put into a ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had just come from the field, he said, and had been put into a card house three stories high, and all made of picture cards with the figures turned inwards. Who acts: person, figures. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 8

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He had just come from the field, he said, and had been put into a card house three stories high, and all made of picture cards with the figures turned inwards.

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**Who acts:** person, figures · **What happens:** come, say, put, make, turn · **To what, where:** field, card house, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (person, figures), 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:pg27200:68:8
# text = He had just come from the field, he said, and had been put into a card house three stories high, and all made of picture cards with the figures turned inwards.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
34	inwards	inwards	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | person |  |  | the field |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | person |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | a card house |  | high *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 4 | **make** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  | of picture cards | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **turn** | past | the figures |  |  |  |  | inwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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