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title: The tree felt itself stretching and spreading out, while through the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The tree felt itself stretching and spreading out, while through the root beneath the earth ran the warm vigor of life. Who acts: tree, earth. 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 pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 57

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The tree felt itself stretching and spreading out, while through the root beneath the earth ran the warm vigor of life.

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**Who acts:** tree, earth · **What happens:** feel, stretch, spread out, run · **To what, where:** life, root, warm vigor

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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 (tree, earth), 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:pg27200:69:57
# text = The tree felt itself stretching and spreading out, while through the root beneath the earth ran the warm vigor of life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	vigor	vigor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the tree | life |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch** | gerund | the tree *not said here* |  |  | the root |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through root=Location |
| 3 | **spread out** | gerund | the tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | the earth | the warm vigor of life |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vigor=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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