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title: He saw hostile warriors, in colored dresses and glittering armor, wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw hostile warriors, in colored dresses and glittering armor, with spear and halberd, pitching their tents, and anon striking them. Who acts: cuckoo, anon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 51

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He saw hostile warriors, in colored dresses and glittering armor, with spear and halberd, pitching their tents, and anon striking them.

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**Who acts:** cuckoo, anon · **What happens:** see, glitter, pitch, strike · **To what, where:** hostile warriors, tents

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cuckoo, anon), 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:pg27200:69:51
# text = He saw hostile warriors, in colored dresses and glittering armor, with spear and halberd, pitching their tents, and anon striking them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	halberd	halberd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	pitching	pitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	anon	anon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | cuckoo | hostile warriors and colored dresses and glittering armor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pitch** | gerund | cuckoo *not said here* | spear's tents |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | gerund | anon *not said here* | tents *= tent* |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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