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title: How handsome all the people were, and what fine cattle were grazing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How handsome all the people were, and what fine cattle were grazing on the hills and in the valleys!" Who acts: fine cattle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 193

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How handsome all the people were, and what fine cattle were grazing on the hills and in the valleys!"

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**Who acts:** fine cattle · **What happens:** graze · **To what, where:** handsome people, hills

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine cattle), 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:pg27200:71:193
# text = How handsome all the people were, and what fine cattle were grazing on the hills and in the valleys!"
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | past · progressive | fine cattle | all handsome people |  | the hills and the valleys |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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